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For these reasons it may be assumed, that the Horeslii were the people of JPi/ef/iire.
The Works of Cornelius Tacitus Cornelius Tacitus , Arthur Murphy 1812
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Persons hearing me attempt an elucidation of the parable of the wheat and tares, must recollect I have declared, that at the end of the world, God would take out of his kingdom all things that of - fend, and the7n which do iniquity, and cast them into a furnace of iire.
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They live in woods, and iire fuppofed to feed on grain and infc6ls.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States 1795
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Iftcncement of the fecond Dutch war, appointed to the iBantham, and afterwards to the Prudent Mary, both iire* ihips, 'as well as the former,
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A fervant fetting iire carelefsly to a houfe, is Mable to pay, on the cath of one witnefs, a hundred founds to the fufferer, or be committed to hard labour for
The London adviser and guide: containing every instruction and information ... 1790
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In caie of iire, the turn - cock, whofe water comes iirft, fhall have 10/. paid by the parifh officers.
A Compendious Digest of the Statute Law, Comprising the Substance and Effect of All the Public ... 1787
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Philofophers have named iire as one of the elements: we muft all allow that a combination of the different elements makes the variety of bodies we fee in nature: therefore, if fire is one, it muft make a part of thefe bodies, unlefs we fuppofe nature formed an element for no purpofe.
The Monthly Review 1786
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Then the fame iire we kindled here With what was given to quench it there.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1781
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The Arms of hn dc - iire were itrctchcd out after God, and were flexible to embrace htm.
The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons in this Later Age: In Two Parts : I. of Divines, II. of ... 1683
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'A II acceptance by a ceptance by a two thirds vote oi the voters oi said iire two tiiirds vota district present and voting thereon at a legal meeting of said fire district called for the purpose within three years of its passage.
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