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... land forces con- fifted of 64,000 men ; and the marine of 20 fhips of the line , and 70 galleys , for manning of ... lands in Holstein , in default of which he threat- ened to take poffeffion of the lands mort- gaged . Soon after this we ...
... land forces con- fifted of 64,000 men ; and the marine of 20 fhips of the line , and 70 galleys , for manning of ... lands in Holstein , in default of which he threat- ened to take poffeffion of the lands mort- gaged . Soon after this we ...
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... LAND , poffeffed by the King of Prufia , and claimed by his Britannic Majefty Elector of Hanover , remains in the fi- tuation to which it was brought in 1753 . That cafe was then referred by the diet at Ratisbon , much contrary to the ...
... LAND , poffeffed by the King of Prufia , and claimed by his Britannic Majefty Elector of Hanover , remains in the fi- tuation to which it was brought in 1753 . That cafe was then referred by the diet at Ratisbon , much contrary to the ...
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... land- graviate , and be given to the eldest fon of Prince Frederick , to be held and go- verned by him in an entire indepen- dence , till the death of his father ; that the hereditary Princess may retire to the fame county , if the ...
... land- graviate , and be given to the eldest fon of Prince Frederick , to be held and go- verned by him in an entire indepen- dence , till the death of his father ; that the hereditary Princess may retire to the fame county , if the ...
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... of the aftonished crew to facrifice them by his own hand . Tears waited upon every blow : but beginning with the greatest favourite , favourite , whom he stabbed to the heart , he 18 Jerzea by the Dutch . The land of VOI . XVII .
... of the aftonished crew to facrifice them by his own hand . Tears waited upon every blow : but beginning with the greatest favourite , favourite , whom he stabbed to the heart , he 18 Jerzea by the Dutch . The land of VOI . XVII .
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... land - owner may double the value of his cftate in one year . 2 s . 6 d . Millar.- This author fuppofes every good farm to make yearly three rents ; the firit , for the landlord , supposing 5 1 .; the fecond , for charges , 51. more ...
... land - owner may double the value of his cftate in one year . 2 s . 6 d . Millar.- This author fuppofes every good farm to make yearly three rents ; the firit , for the landlord , supposing 5 1 .; the fecond , for charges , 51. more ...
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Página 184 - It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe that, if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed.
Página 182 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words...
Página 184 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 184 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Página 184 - ... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need, for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow.
Página 437 - The happiness of the world is the concern of him, who is the lord and the proprietor of it : nor do we know what we are about, when we endeavour to promote the good of mankind in any ways, but those which he has directed ; that is indeed in all ways not contrary to veracity and justice.
Página 183 - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Página 183 - ... the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.
Página 183 - I saw that one enquiry only gave occasion to another, that book referred to book, that to search was not always to find, and to find was not always to be informed ; and that thus to...
Página 182 - I have been cautious lest my zeal for antiquity might drive me into times too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's work for the boundary, beyond which I make few excursions.