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By this dcftruftion of the temple of Chrifl's body, we are to underftand the death of Chrift, who was afilually crucified, dead, and buried, according to the hillory thereof you have ia the evan - gelifts Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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Scfe'ltris king of Egypt (the ianie pro - bahlv as Shi/hak) conquered great part oi 'Europe and of Alia, if dicre is any fait'i in ancient hillory.
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But as example teaches more efFedlually than precept, as curiofity is more alive to recent fafts than to remote illuftrations, I fliall here re - late the hillory of a man of family and falhion, who ON THE MIND AND THE HEART.
Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart: Written ... Johann Georg Zimmermann, J. B . Mercier 1794
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In the cafe of trcjfoa, for example, though the profecution is on the part of tlie United States, yet the con - grefs can neither define nor try the crime, if we have re - conrfe to the hillory of the different governments that have llJdierto fublifted, we ll: all find that a very great part cf their I
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America: With that Constitution ... James Wilson, Thomas McKean 1792
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L general idea of hillory, opens and expands the mind, removes prejudices, and convinces us, how ill-founded and extravagant thofe notions are, which mofl people entertain of the fuperior grandeur, wifdom, and refinement of their own times, and of the country in which they live.
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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No mifer can iiccumulate pelf with more avidity than I do thefe articles of natural hillory I have accepted, without any fcruple or ceremony, many prefents from perfons of condiiion, — particularly from the Duchcfs of Snxc Got/MJ, aiid Lady D s, wh. o have promifed to give me more; from a French billiop, occafionaily here, a veryrefpedable and pleafant man; homMadamf Bou-rgu-e, my friend, Mr Liumesy and Monf.
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He had fold his hillory of Lewis XIV. to van Durcn of Amfterdam, and received fome thoufand guilders for it.
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1790
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'The hillory of this people furniflies a remarkable proof of the wonders which induftry can perform, and of the opalence to which commerce can taife a nation which applies to it with ardoor.
The Monthly Review 1789
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