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In this tranilatioa of Dryden's, the debafing drcumftance to which I objeft in the original, is, with propriety, omitted.
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If that objeft is likely to be attained, without continuing the reflridions men - tioned
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Nay, it is kept up to injure the caufe of the Company, after they have atlually agreed on enlargements of the trade to England, greater than ever were contemplated, even by the pri - vate merchants of India, before the prefent negotiation; and, if enlargements could effeft the objeft, more than fufficient to bring the whole Indian trade of the Americans to the port of London.
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Their objeft was to triumph over one another, and if at times foreign mvafion compelled them to unite, their union was rivalrv, and their concert, contention.
Oration on the birth of Washington. Delivered in St. Philip's church, Charleston, (S.C.) on the 22d of February, 1812 Crafts, W. [from old catalog] 1812
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Near it i« the chapel of St. Alban, in which flood the rich ihrine, coniainjng hit relict, and which, for age», wan the objeft at religions veneration.
The British Tourists: Through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ... William Fordyce Mavor , William Mavor , Samuel John Neele, C Rivers 1798
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A more elegant and verbofe translation might have been given; but the great objeft with the editors was, to give their author, and not themfelves: and they had no hefitation to facrifice their own fame to honefty and truth.
Calvin's Commentary on the epistle of James, newly translated from the original Latin : with notes, practical, historical, and critical Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. Commentary on the epistle of James .. 1797
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The Solicitor General thought that this motion, if carried, would tend to prevent the Bank from refuming its operations ihftead of aiding them in that defired objeft.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1797
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Thefe reafons involve ministers in that deep refpoa - fibility which it has been the objeft of thefe pages to make plain to the Britifli nation.
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France Thomas Erskine Erskine 1797
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Here is r manufaftiire of coade woollen cloths, and fome copper-mills, which metal is a confiderable objeft of
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And hence, here, in the text, he is the fubjcdl of the new fong, and the objeft of the worfliip, and praife of the redeemed; Tbou viaft fiain, and baft redeevied us to God by tby blood - Our Redeemer, therefore, is the won - derful LtMANUEL, Godrman.
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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