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Old and New London
… was an entirely fictitious romance, a creation of Cowper's brain, or whether its author founded his poem upon an … blest Becky that came with 'em for her having an unstuff'd brain with such rubbish. We shall get in by Michael's Mass. …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
Survey of London
… in short, upon which to place any outcome of the human brain, except possibly an underground lavatory! I had this … ordinary yet utilitarian product of the practical brain of the County Council cost half as much again in its …
Old and New London
… the constant alternation of hope and fear, wear out the brain, and soon lead to disease or death. Yet instances of …
Old and New London
… accommodation, on the pledge of the embryos of his own brain. Jacob Tonson was his usual resource on these …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… proceed upon surer grounds than such mere fancies of the brain, without foundation in the things themselves, I thought …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 'on its appearing, that he was a man of distempered brain and a lunatic'; Cal. Com. for Comp. iv, 2922. Pal. of …