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...n Jan. 28, 1755, he was commissioned Captain of the First Company of militia of Shrewsbury and Major in the “3rd regiment of militia in the county of Middlesex and Worcester. . . whereof Abraham Williams, Esq. is Colonel.” Early in 1758 he was commissioned Major in the regiment of Col. Wm. Williams, raised “for the general invasion of Canada,” and took part in Abercrombie’...

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...or my Aunts.” “My Father’s house is situated in Bedfordshire, my Aunt’s in Middlesex, and tho’ I flatter myself with be- ing a tolerable proficient in... ...y Father, my Mother and my Isabel, I accompanied Ed- ward to his Aunt’s in Middlesex. Philippa received us both with every expression of affectionate ...

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...ing brass-plate, setting forth that “Aminadab, Officer to the Sher- iff of Middlesex,” lived therein. A little red-haired Israelite opened the first d...

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...gentleman—” “William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex,” he murmured. “Between this gentleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Pen... ...ntleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, and myself.” “Thank you, miss,” said Mr. Guppy. “Very full—er—ex...

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...und. I myself heard nothing of that. Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that an... ...nd the bend, my fever and faintness overcame my fears, and I landed on the Middlesex bank and lay down, deadly sick, amid the long grass. I suppose th...

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... be se- duced by their charms, endeavors to banish them from the county of Middlesex. But the truth is, that, however objec- tionable per se, yet, rel...

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... chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesomest soil in England. It is built on... ...ngs, upon establishing this form of government. Vide Camden’s “Britannia,” Middlesex. It is worthy of observation, that every year, upon St. Bartholom... ... forty thousand foot and twenty thousand horse. Vide Camden’s “Britannia,” Middlesex. The best oysters are sold here in great quantities. Everybody kn...

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..., or rather is conducted, six miles through the woods to the Merrimack, at Middlesex, and as we did not care to loiter in this part of our voyage, whi... ...en men are about to do hot and dirty work. If I should ask the minister of Middlesex to let me speak in his pulpit on a Sunday, he would object, becau... ...n asylum. By noon we were let down into the Merrimack through the locks at Middlesex, just above Pawtucket Falls, by a se rene and liberal minded man... ...s receipt for his cargo, and, having heard the news at the public house at Middlesex or elsewhere, goes back with his empty boat and his receipt in hi... ... up but a few feet on the shore! When we reached the great bend just above Middlesex, where the river runs east thirty five miles to the sea, we at le...

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...somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine. Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with eclat annually, as if all the joi... ...prised when the herald blows his sum mons before some Tremont or Astor or Middlesex House, to see come creeping out over the piazza for all inhab it... ... tale, I knew that they had got the last drone of them all safely into the Middlesex hive, and that now their minds were bent on the honey with which ...

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...outgrown your mother. [She goes out]. Perivale St Andrews lies between two Middlesex hills, half climb- ing the northern one. It is an almost smokeles...

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...vy Council?—or the Lord Mayor and Common Council of London—the Sheriffs of Middlesex—and the Twelve Judges? As to the court physi- cians, though three...

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...he first of the low winter clouds cuts off the well-known view and darkens Middlesex. On the south edge of it I can see a postal packet’s light plough...

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...en it up as a literary fiction if I had not discovered it sur- viving in a Middlesex village, and heard of it from an Essex one. Some time in the eigh...

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...here stood the horrid linnen- cart, with ‘Mary Blodder, Laundress, Ealing, Middlesex,’ wrote on the bord, and waiting till my abandind old parint shou... ..., until we received a strange document from Higgs, in London—which begun, “Middlesex to wit. Samuel Cox, late of Portland Place, in the city of W estm...

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...ir political clas 107 J S Mill sification. The notion that Yorkshire and Middlesex have rights apart from those of their inhabitants, or that Liverp...