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You may touch going thither on either fide of Terra Patagonia, or, if you pleafe, at the Gallapagoes Iflands, where there is refrefliment enough; and returning you may probably touch fomewhere on New Holland, and fo mztie fome profitable difcovery in thefe places without going out of your way.
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His fervants and his wives and children talk and fing. or play how they pleafe all the time, but himfeif is very ferious.
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They are Grangers to the true knowledge of God: But all who, from principles of faith and love, feek and do the things that pleafe him, are his children, and ought for his fake, to affift miniftring fervants in their Lord's work, that they may bear a part with them in propagating evangelical truth and the good of precious fouls.
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Some authors pleafe for a moment, and are relifhed no more: but, the more frequently Calvin's Commentary is perufed, the fenfible reader becomes the fonder of it.
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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We may receive it, if we pleafe; and if we were in want,
The Infant's Friend: Part I. A Spelling Book. By Mrs. Lovechild Lovechild 1797
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This alone would have convinced me, that they cannot com - mand the liquefadtion when they pleafe.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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Mr. Burdon could not think that auguft Aftcmbly would be induced to place the country in fo degrading a fituation as to pafs their vote in order to pleafe the enemy.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1797
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I pleafe my - felf with the opinion that fortune has direfled my fteps to a houfe where arts and letters are of fome confideration.
New Travels Into the Interior Parts of Africa: By the Way of the Cape of ... 1796
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By juftice own'd, can pleafe me with its trophies.
The Monthly Review 1796
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I have alfo inclofed a letter from Ballard, which Congrefs will pleafe to determine oflf fubjeft being new and not within my authority.
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