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... gives for the total number of hours · These 1,281 hours multiplied by 100,000 , the number of inhabit- ants , give · One hundred twenty - eight millions and one hundred thousand hours spent at Paris by candle - light , Which , at half a ...
... gives for the total number of hours · These 1,281 hours multiplied by 100,000 , the number of inhabit- ants , give · One hundred twenty - eight millions and one hundred thousand hours spent at Paris by candle - light , Which , at half a ...
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... give advice , you offend both parties , him against whom you give it , because it may cause the loss of his game ; him in whose favour you give it , because , though it be good , and he follows it , he loses the pleasure he might have ...
... give advice , you offend both parties , him against whom you give it , because it may cause the loss of his game ; him in whose favour you give it , because , though it be good , and he follows it , he loses the pleasure he might have ...
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... give more than four shillings a pound . No , says he ; I cannot give so much - I cannot give more than three shil- lings and sixpence . I then spoke to several other dealers , but they all sung the same song - three and sixpence , three ...
... give more than four shillings a pound . No , says he ; I cannot give so much - I cannot give more than three shil- lings and sixpence . I then spoke to several other dealers , but they all sung the same song - three and sixpence , three ...
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On the criminal laws and the practice of privateering | 51 |
A dialogue between Great Britain France Spain | 107 |
The internal state of America being a true descrip | 121 |
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