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Also note that "have paffed into various hands" (page 47) and "trumpet and baffoon" (page 139) are both as in the book, with the old printer's ff for ss usage.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805
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Roman town; these, unfortunately upon being found at different periods, have paffed into various hands, and altho 'some few gentlemen here have made collections, yet it is to be regretted that by far the greater part of the coins have been taken from the town.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805
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Ordered, That the feveral papers now read, together with the other correfpond - encc, which has paffed, refpefting the negociation for the renewal of the Company's exclufive privileges, be laid before the General Court to be held to-morrow, and printed, as fpeedily as poffible, for the information of the Proprietors.
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The bill was then paffed without further debate, by Yeas and Nays as follows:, J YEAS — Meffrs.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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In four or five minutes time, it came* within a cable's length of us, and paffed away to leeward, and then I faw a long pale ftream coming down to the whirling water.
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The party now in oppofition, then in power, advocated the facrifice of the un - happy Robbins, and paffed thofe two laws.,.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The fupreme power in thefe U.S. paffed into the hands which now poffefs it; in whicK it has been continued down to the prefent time.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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You will perceive by the inclofed copies of notes which have paffed between Lord Caftlereagh and me, Jhat the moderate and equitable terms propofed for a fufpenfion of hoftilities, have been reacted, and that it is my intention to return immediately to the United States.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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I confefs, been always in proportion to the centuries that have paffed over it; for, during the courfe of fome ages, it has funk as into a total lethargy.
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Sir, I have no doubt, that if such a law wt re paffed, with all the requifite folemnities,.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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