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  • As far as she was concerned her iife was a grotesque and implacable lie.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • As far as she was concerned her iife was a grotesque and implacable lie.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • I guess the corollary in political iife is: "Those who cannot win elections become party executives."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • William, summoned by writ to several Parliaments during his Other's iife was baptised tbert Oct. latb, 1605.

    Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812

  • It means, that after he was dead and buried fbr part of three days, he raised himself to iife again on the third

    An Abridgment of Christian doctrine [microform] 1812

  • It cannot be faid, with any propriety, that thefe profeiTors are not of the world, for they are evidently actuated by its principles, they are governed by its laws, and have their portion in this iife.

    Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796

  • TO a generous public little apology - will be neceffary for offering to - their patronage the Story of an Indu vidual, who, under circumftances the mod depreffing in their nature, has been, for a confide rable part of a: long; iife, nheir aJB&duous and ufeful fervantl.

    The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough: With ... Anecdotes of His ... 1795

  • After having given this brief account of this revifed Form of Prayer, it may be proper to remind our readers that it is not ojiablijhedy but only fropofed to the iife of the American Eptfco - pal Church.

    The Monthly Review 1789

  • Scifcitan. ti tar men, quid ipfe fentiam, reliquorum p'ace reporio ': his verbis A - poftolum nihil innuere aliud, nifi Enochum placide migralTe ex Hae. vita, et fme iis incommodis, quae mortem comitari folent, 6b - iife.

    Disquisitio philiologico-exegetica de pietate Heber, Johann 1789

  • He faid to bis Difciple and Biographer, Montalvan, That true fame confided in being good; and that he vtould willingly exchange all the applaufes he had received, to add a fingle deed of virtue to the anions of bis iife.

    Poetical Works 1785

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