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Not to infift upon the impofTibility of a creature intended to live in the cold earth exifling 4» the hot fto - mach, it is well known that there are worms in the inteftines which have no refemblance to any other thing in the creation — the jointed worm, for inftance, which is found of many yards in length: indeed, if fome accounts are to be credited, of fome fcores of yards.
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They are in general fed and left to herd with the hogs; and I do not recoIle£l one inftance in which a dog was made a companion in the manner we do in Europe.
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Z9th, is all that can in the firft inftance be put in force.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the ... Great Britain High Court of Admiralty , William Scott , Christopher Robinson , Thomas Edwards, High Court of Admiralty , Great Britain 1812
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- When fupper was over, abundance of cloth was brought for us to fleep in; but we were a good deal difturbed by a Angular inftance of luxury, in which their principal men indulge chemfelves;
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For inftance, there Sjflr preffure upon the porrion V X equal to that of I, column of watei* QV X R, which is itfelf equal a the column I.
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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In the prcient inftance, however, the fpeech is particularly farcical.
memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798
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The apoftle tells us, that the efFe£lual Jfervent prayer of a righteous man avails much; and bow is this verified in the inftance of Abraham's inter - ceffion for Sodom!
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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And while I was endeavour - ing to recover my difordered affairs, the enemy broke in upon me, and fhame fully defeated me, without giv - ing me an opportunity of displaying one inftance of my prowefs.
Three dialogues on the amusements of clergymen [signed Jos. Frampton]. 1797
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Thus finding, for inftance, that the name of/jcaf is naniei of annexed to that fenfation which men feel when they fimple i - approach the fire« I make it alfo the fign of the feiifap tion«, a nitions.
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And men do defire, in every inftance, to know what is true, except in the infinitely important things of religion.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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