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... received from various quarters . To the Hon . Judge Story , and to John Pickering , Esq . , of Boston , they are under peculiar obligations . The longest and most elaborate articles in the law department are from the pen of the former ...
... received from various quarters . To the Hon . Judge Story , and to John Pickering , Esq . , of Boston , they are under peculiar obligations . The longest and most elaborate articles in the law department are from the pen of the former ...
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... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
... received , in a variety of ways , the most important aid . They are also indebted for valuable contributions , or favors of other kinds , to numerous other gentlemen , among whom they may be permitted to mention Mr. Duponceau , of ...
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... received his first instruction in the Jesuits ' college of Louis XIV . , under Porée and Le Jay . Here he displayed talents which warrant- ed the highest expectations . In his third year he was able to repeat the fables of La Fontaine ...
... received his first instruction in the Jesuits ' college of Louis XIV . , under Porée and Le Jay . Here he displayed talents which warrant- ed the highest expectations . In his third year he was able to repeat the fables of La Fontaine ...
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... received 1740 , an alliance with him was considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by ...
... received 1740 , an alliance with him was considered permission to return to France , where he desirable . Voltaire was sent to Berlin , put his acquisitions into a lottery . By and discovered the ground upon which this , as well as by ...
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... received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed ... receiving the sacrament , in the eighty- fifth year of his age , May 30 , 1778. The archbishop of Paris is said to have ...
... received with unbound- ed applause . The French academy sent him their gratulations on this occasion , and placed ... receiving the sacrament , in the eighty- fifth year of his age , May 30 , 1778. The archbishop of Paris is said to have ...
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Página 237 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 147 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 463 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
Página 257 - Descriptive Sketches. In Verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps.
Página 475 - Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Página 475 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Página 475 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Página 400 - If we are beaten on the plains, we will retreat to our mountains and defy them. Our resources will increase with our difficulties. Necessity will force us to exertion; until, tired of combating, in vain, against a spirit which victory after victory cannot subdue, your armies will evacuate our soil, and your country retire, an immense loser, from the contest. — No, sir, — we have made up our minds to abide the issue of the approaching struggle; and though much blood may be spilt, we have no doubt...
Página 452 - FORGERY at common law has been defined as "the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right ;" (a) or, more recently, as " a false making, a making malo animo, of any written instrument, for the purpose of fraud and deceit...
Página 110 - Troy Weight 24 grains = 1 pennyweight. 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce. 12 ounces = 1 pound.