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And now the War being ended between Lybia and Numidia, tho 'much to the Disadvantage of the Lybians, nevertheless, the King of Lybia muster'd his shatter'd Forces, rais'd new ones, and came against Egypt, hoping (no Doubt) for a Party amongst the discontented
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Coldness, and Indifferency; one rais'd my Hopes above Ela, the other cast my Despair below Gamut.
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Son, and Play − fellow in my Childhood, for which Cause I had continually patroniz'd him, and rais'd him and his Brother to these Dignities; and on the same Consideration conceal'd this Folly, thinking it was only the
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Beings, rais'd in me such Anger, as turn'd to Hatred and Aversion to the
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Thus I rais'd my Thoughts to the highest Pitch of Vanity, and then branch'd them forth, by enumerating the Honours and Antiquities of my Family, the Noble House of the
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Spirits, and calm those Storms, which Mistakes have rais'd in your Breast; in order to which, I will fetch you a little Cordial, that may moderate your Fury, by procuring you some gentle Slumbers.
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But this heroick Temper of hers, which rais'd her Thoughts above the usual Pitch of her Sex, made her scorn to be
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By his Industry, under − hand and unperceiv'd, he found Means to remove the King's Friends out of all Places and Offices of Trust, rais'd the People's Clamour against the Jews and the Romans,
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The Woman rais'd me from the Place whereon I lay, and help'd me to scramble up some Craggs of the Rock, and pass'd with me through a Cleft, and so got into a pretty Kind of a Room, where was a little Fire of Shells and Fish Bones, as also some human Bones, Ribs,
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Officers over his new − rais'd Troops; and, in Consideration of the good
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