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... employed . A great part of Queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had therefore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the ...
... employed . A great part of Queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had therefore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the ...
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... employ him in the future treaty of commerce , it will be of consequence that he has been a party concerned in concluding that convention which must be the rule of this treaty . " The assembly of this important night was in some degree ...
... employ him in the future treaty of commerce , it will be of consequence that he has been a party concerned in concluding that convention which must be the rule of this treaty . " The assembly of this important night was in some degree ...
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... employed by men very capable of estimating his value , having been secretary to one embassy , had , when great abilities were again wanted , same office another time ; and was , after so much experience of his knowledge and dexterity ...
... employed by men very capable of estimating his value , having been secretary to one embassy , had , when great abilities were again wanted , same office another time ; and was , after so much experience of his knowledge and dexterity ...
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... employ it , yet he has sometimes entertained his friends with his unpublished per- formances . " The rest of the Lay Monks seem to be but feeble mortals , in comparison with the gigantic Johnson ; who yet , with all his abilities , and ...
... employ it , yet he has sometimes entertained his friends with his unpublished per- formances . " The rest of the Lay Monks seem to be but feeble mortals , in comparison with the gigantic Johnson ; who yet , with all his abilities , and ...
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... employed his un- welcome leisure in writing books on physic , and teaching others to cure those whom he could himself cure no longer . I know not whether I can enumerate all the treatises by which he has endeavoured to diffuse the art ...
... employed his un- welcome leisure in writing books on physic , and teaching others to cure those whom he could himself cure no longer . I know not whether I can enumerate all the treatises by which he has endeavoured to diffuse the art ...
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