JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell,
A _Carrier_ who _carried_ his can to his mouth well;
He carried so much and he carried so fast,
He could carry no more--so was carried at last;
For the liquor he drank being too much for one,
He could not _carry_ off;--so he's now _carri-on_.

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Dreſs.—A Character.—Remarks on Mrs.Trueman's Manner of dreſſing.-Trifling Omiſſions undermine Affection.

— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Le soin et l’exactitude dans la recherche des faits, sont le seul mérite dont un historien puisse se glorifier, si toutefois il y a quelque mérite à remplir un devoir indispensable. Il doit donc m’être permis de déclarer que j’ai soigneusement examiné toutes les sources premières propres à me fournir quelques…

— Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire romain
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COLVILLE, Alexander, Lord, British naval officer, b. about 1710; d. 21 May, 1770. He was the eighth Baron Colville in the peerage of Scotland. He entered the navy, and attained in 1770
the rank of vice-admiral of the white. He commanded on the North American station, and in 1762 drove the French out of St. John, Newfoundland, which…

— Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
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Centralisation et décentralisation. — Naufrage du Programme de Nancy. — Préoccupations conservatrices. — La Loi municipale. — Élection du Conseil municipal de Paris.

— Histoire socialiste
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The powerful influence of the Arab philosophers upon the Western schools from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century makes it highly important to trace the sources of their doctrines, and especially to investigate the character of their interpretation of Aristotle.

— Andrew Halliday Douglas
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As to letters patent generally, see Bacon’s Abridgment (“Prerogative,”
F.); Chitty’s Prerogative; Hindmarsh on Patents (1846);
Anson, Law and Custom of the Const. ii. (3rd ed., Oxford and London, 1907–1908).
(A. W. R.)

— Alexander Wood Renton
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SHOWING HOW MAJOR GRANTLY RETURNED TO GUESTWICK.
Grace, when she was left alone, threw herself upon the sofa, and hid her face in her hands. She was weeping almost hysterically, and had been utterly dismayed and frightened by her lover's impetuosity. Things had gone after a fashion which her imagination had not painted to her as possible. Surely she had the power to…

— Anthony Trollope
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Le Ministre de l’intérieur,
Vu l’arrêté royal du 1 décembre 1845, portant que l’Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique sera chargée de la rédaction d’une Biographie nationale et qu’elle soumettra à la sanction du Gouvernement les mesures d’exécution de ce travail;
Vu le projet adopté, en conséquence, par…

— Biographie nationale de Belgique
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Bauhauer (Von). Voyez Moleschott.
Bergsma (C. A.). De Aardappel Epidemie in Nederland inder jare, 1845. Broch. in-8. Utrecht, 1845.
Berkeley (le Revér. J.). Lettre insérée dans le Gardeners’Chronicle, n. 35, 30 août.
Bidard, Voyez Girardin.
Bonjean (Joseph). Lettres sur l’altération des pommes de terre et sur leur innocuité. Courrier des Alpes, du 20-30…

— Joseph Decaisne
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