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... ground ; an art , which , as the beds were both foft and dry , preferved their health in the field , when other foldiers loft theirs . Their arms were a broad fword , a dagger , called a durk , a target , a mus- ket , and two piftols ...
... ground ; an art , which , as the beds were both foft and dry , preferved their health in the field , when other foldiers loft theirs . Their arms were a broad fword , a dagger , called a durk , a target , a mus- ket , and two piftols ...
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... ground a week , without any damage ; and , if there is a little water at the bottom of the ditch he apprehends they would lie there fafely a month , but the best way , un- doubtedly , in fuch cafes , is to move them from one hedge to ...
... ground a week , without any damage ; and , if there is a little water at the bottom of the ditch he apprehends they would lie there fafely a month , but the best way , un- doubtedly , in fuch cafes , is to move them from one hedge to ...
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... ground towards the goal of deftructi- on , and the human invention is continu- ally on the rack to find out new me- thods for the diffipation of our wealth and time . The winter being paft , let us take a view of the difpofition of the ...
... ground towards the goal of deftructi- on , and the human invention is continu- ally on the rack to find out new me- thods for the diffipation of our wealth and time . The winter being paft , let us take a view of the difpofition of the ...
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... ground , Yet fo great was his luck , that he ne ver was drown'd . 1 Of all the ftrange things that befel this good yeoman , He was married , poor foul ! and his wife was a woman , But tho ' fhe was loving , complacent and mild , Yet fo ...
... ground , Yet fo great was his luck , that he ne ver was drown'd . 1 Of all the ftrange things that befel this good yeoman , He was married , poor foul ! and his wife was a woman , But tho ' fhe was loving , complacent and mild , Yet fo ...
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... ground every moment ; and though the Court are willing to fmother it , yet two very particular circumftances feem to confirm it even past a doubt ; for in the first place , ever fince this defection was given out only by whispers ...
... ground every moment ; and though the Court are willing to fmother it , yet two very particular circumftances feem to confirm it even past a doubt ; for in the first place , ever fince this defection was given out only by whispers ...
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