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This miferable fufferer contmually complained of unfufferable thirft, which is pe - culiarly incident to this terrible punifliment.
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Towns there were none; « the fcattered dwellings of the natives were but miferable huts,3 and many of the moil bbvipiis comforts and conveniences of life were utteriy unknown to them.
An Illustration of the Roman Antiquities Discovered at Bath 1797
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The good man has many dark and gloomy days to experience, many and various temptations, trials, and trou - bles to endure; and had he not a God to go to, and was he not a God at hand, to whom he may at all times repair, he would be miferable indeed.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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So that there is no pardon for the guilty — no acceptance for the un - godly — no peace for the diftrefled — no hap - pinefs for the miferable, but through faith in the perfon, obedience, facrifice, and in - terceflion of the adorable Immanuel. — -
A Serious Address on Certain Important Points of Evangelical Doctrine and of Christian Duty ... James Upton 1797
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The wines, which are made in the adjacent country, iniinke - ly exceed the miferable claret drank in this part of the kingdom, and are fold at eight fous a bot - tle.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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Thefe perfons appeared by no means miferable 5 they feemed to be at home.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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Female outcaftsy difcharged from gaols; and miferable, for - lorn proftitutes, who are willing to work for their fubfift - ence, but unable to find employment on account of the lofs of charafter.
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ... Patrick Colquhoun 1797
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They lend yearly confiderable quantities of wine to the neighbouring parts of Georgia, in leathefn bags, car - ried by horfes: but they are wlthotit ina - rrafaftures, veryjpopr and miferable, and cruelly opprefl'cdW their landlords '.
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By this time a profufe fweat had broke out on every individual, attended with an infatiable thirft, which increafed as the body became drain - ed of internal moifture. in vain thofe miferable objefts ftripped them* felves of their clothes, fquatted down on their hams, to obtain room, and fanned the air with their hats, to produce a refrefhing undulation.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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And therefore whatever pad actions it cannot reconcile or appropriate to that prefent felf by confcioufnefs, it can be no more concerned in, than if they had never been done: and to receive pleafure or pain, i.c. reward or punifhment, on the account of any fuch adlion, is all one as to be made happy or miferable in its firft being, without any demerit at all.
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