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... I should enter and ransack, the treasures with which I expected every search
into those neglected mines to reward my labour, and the triumph with which I
should display my acquisitions to mankind. When I had thus enquired into the
original ...
... I should enter and ransack, the treasures with which I expected every search
into those neglected mines to reward my labour, and the triumph with which I
should display my acquisitions to mankind. When I had thus enquired into the
original ...
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But what makes a word obsolete, more than general agreement to forbear it? and
how shall it be continued, when it conveys an offensive idea, or recalled again
into the mouths of mankind, when it has once become unfamiliar by disuse, and ...
But what makes a word obsolete, more than general agreement to forbear it? and
how shall it be continued, when it conveys an offensive idea, or recalled again
into the mouths of mankind, when it has once become unfamiliar by disuse, and ...
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On the sincerity and punctuality of this confession I am willing to depend for all
the future regard of mankind, and cannot but indulge some hopes, that they
whom my offence has alienated from me, may by this instance of ingenuity and ...
On the sincerity and punctuality of this confession I am willing to depend for all
the future regard of mankind, and cannot but indulge some hopes, that they
whom my offence has alienated from me, may by this instance of ingenuity and ...
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The consequence of my blind passion, I need not relate ; it has, by your detection,
become apparent to mankind. Nor do I mention this provocation as adequate to
the fury which I have shown, but as a cause of anger, less shameful and ...
The consequence of my blind passion, I need not relate ; it has, by your detection,
become apparent to mankind. Nor do I mention this provocation as adequate to
the fury which I have shown, but as a cause of anger, less shameful and ...
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But when the discovery of the new world turned the attention of mankind upon the
naval sciences, and long courses required greater niceties of practice, the
variation of the needle soon became observable, and was recorded in 1 500 by ...
But when the discovery of the new world turned the attention of mankind upon the
naval sciences, and long courses required greater niceties of practice, the
variation of the needle soon became observable, and was recorded in 1 500 by ...
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