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... persons who are acquainted with any facts , circumstances , characters , trans- actions , & c . which will be requisite to the perfect- ing and embellishment of the said work , are desired to communicate the same to the author , and ...
... persons who are acquainted with any facts , circumstances , characters , trans- actions , & c . which will be requisite to the perfect- ing and embellishment of the said work , are desired to communicate the same to the author , and ...
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... persons may be a little eased of their fears , and relieved from the terrible palpitations they have lately felt and suffered , and do still suffer ; I hereby graciously pass an act of general oblivion for all offences , crimes , and ...
... persons may be a little eased of their fears , and relieved from the terrible palpitations they have lately felt and suffered , and do still suffer ; I hereby graciously pass an act of general oblivion for all offences , crimes , and ...
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... person who some time since wrote me the follow- ing letter ; and who , having a wonderful faculty that enables him to ... persons that are absent or asleep , but even of the devil himself , in many of his secret workings , in the various ...
... person who some time since wrote me the follow- ing letter ; and who , having a wonderful faculty that enables him to ... persons that are absent or asleep , but even of the devil himself , in many of his secret workings , in the various ...
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... person , in what is called my gross description ( be he who he will to whom my accuser has applied the character of Cretico ) , is , that he is a sour philoso- pher , crafty , but not wise . Few human characters can be drawn that will ...
... person , in what is called my gross description ( be he who he will to whom my accuser has applied the character of Cretico ) , is , that he is a sour philoso- pher , crafty , but not wise . Few human characters can be drawn that will ...
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... person ; and in the haste of doing it , he may happen to be stripped of what he really owns and deserves . As I am censor , I might punish the first , but I forgive it . Yet I will not leave the latter un- rewarded ; but assure my ...
... person ; and in the haste of doing it , he may happen to be stripped of what he really owns and deserves . As I am censor , I might punish the first , but I forgive it . Yet I will not leave the latter un- rewarded ; but assure my ...
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