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On their return, John called his mafter alide, and told him of his due diftribu -
The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. 1770
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US as within about two mufquet fliot; and, afking no queftions, they furrounded us with their horfe and looked very eameftly upon us twice; at length they placed thenifelves juft in our way; upon which we drew up in a little line before our camels, being not above fixteen men in all; and being drawn up thus, we halted, and fent out the Siberian fervant who attended his lord, to fee who they were; his mafter was the more willing to let him go, becaufe he was not a little apprehenfive that. they were a Siberian troop fent out after him.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Of York ... 1790
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His maintenance is generally advanced to him from the flock of a mafter, the farmer who employs him, and who would have no intereft to employ him, unlefs he was to fhare in the produce of his labour, or unlefe his ftock was to be replaced to him with a profit.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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No mafter hatter can have more than two apprentices any-where in Eng - land, or in the Englifli plantations, under pain of forfeiting five pounds a month, half to the king,
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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The crew in confequence were formed into three divifions: the firft watch was «nder the orders of the captain; the pilot commanded the fecond, and the mafter the third.
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Our merchants and mafter-manufa&urers com - plain much of the bad efie&s of high wages in railing the price, and thereby leflening the fide of their goods both at home and abroad.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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In the year 1769, I faw an execution of this kind, of a Macafler flave, who had murdered his mafter; which was done in the following manner.
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On the 25th the mafter and the pilot, the weather being fair, went off again to the wreck, and thofe who were left on fhore, obferving that they wanted hands to get any thing out of her, fent off fome to affift them.
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On the 24th, being near an ifland of ice, which was about fifty feet high and four hundred fathoms in circuit, the mafter went in the jolly-boat to fee if any water ran from it.
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He might have been purchafed by us of his mafter for a fmall matter (as he was afterwards by Mr. Moody, who came hither to trade, and laded a fhip with clove-bark), and by tnuiijporting him home to his own country, we might have gotten a trade there.
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