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To make his reports more credible or, (which he and his stationer onely aymes at,) more vendible, in the relation of every occurrent he renders you the day of the moneth; and to approve himselfe a scholler, he annexeth these Latine parcells, or parcell-gilt sentences, _veteri stylo, novo stylo_.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Land in the vicinity has sold in small parcells at more than 20/.
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Should it meet your approbation I would feel Inclined to Contract for the Sashes frames Doors &c have them made at my Shop here, in Such parcells and quantity as may be Stipulated Within The Time limited, and to correspond in Terms Agreeable To the Intention of your Advertisement
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1819 [a machine-readable transcription] 1819
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Should not Entirely Answer for the Customs of both these parcells I should
Letter from Robert Carter to Messrs. Haswell & Brooks, May 30, 1729 1729
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Sales of these two parcells by the Distance of time they go away in that you may think it proper to allow me the full discounts altho my Cash
Letter from Robert Carter to Messrs. Haswell & Brooks, May 30, 1729 1729
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What Hoggs I am to have I must have them Drove down to me and I would have them come in Two parcells as Roger Oxford indeed pro pos'd to Me to be the best way its very common to the Southward to drive
Letter from Robert Carter to Robert Jones, December 4, 1728 1728
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I dont know how to give them a proper answer find I must keep at the Labouring Oar as long as I live, The Complaints You make of the badness of my Tobo is one heavy Article I am sure abundance of the parcells You had Especially That by Wharton was choice
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry Sr. and Jr., February 13, 1721 1721
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Sold Their Tobos. in round parcells and at good rates, I cannot allow my self to come behind any of these Gent in the Planters Trade, by all the Lettrs.
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry, Senior, and Junior, May 27, 1721 1721
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Barren Land which lyes in small parcells, And here I presume it may be about 18 or 20 Miles a cross the Neck from the Mouth of the Deep --
Letter from Thomas Hooper to Robert Carter, 1715 January 1 1715
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To which I must add that I have sometimes seen, and so questionlesse have you much oftener, some parcells of Glasse adhering to the Test or Cuppel, and this Glass though Emergent as well as the
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