Firft

Hence fays the apoftle, "He who hath wrought us, for the felf fame thing is God, who hath alfo given us the earneft of the fpirit;" that is, the firft fruits of the heavenly Canaan. ❋ Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 (1797)

I have a thing to fuppofe — a thing to de - clare — a thing to conceal — a thing to choofe, and a thing to pray for This chapter, there - fore, I name the chapter of things — and my next chapter to it, that is, the firft chapter of my next volume, if I live, fhall be my chapter upon ❋ Unknown (1795)

Or have my various fcenes a purpofe known Which freedom, virtue, glory, might not own i Such from the firft was my dramatic plan; ❋ Unknown (1794)

To the Miniiters poffi - bly*; and if fo, it ought to be a warning to the Houfe, that it mould not, by acting like. the Miniiters, lofe the proper, that is, the firft opportunity, and thereby throw ex - ❋ Unknown (1793)

The Venetians feldom inhabit the firft, which is often entirely filled with lumber. ❋ Rev. John Adams, A . M. (1792)

The fituation of thefe two fatellites is between that which has hitherto been always called the firft fatellite, and the boJy of the planet; and confequent - ❋ Unknown (1791)

Take a man in a violent pafEon, or a man that never has been in one; but the firft is the beit. ❋ French Laurence , Joseph Richardson , Richard Tickell (1791)

The firft was the Stambouline, or Conftantinople peek, exactly 23 1 inches; the fecond, the Hendaizy, of i\-J - inches; and the third the peek El JBelledy, jq? ❋ Unknown (1790)

Let me then, for the fake of diftinftion, be permitted to call the firft sense, and the latter GENIUS. ❋ Unknown (1790)

The fatire is divided into three parts: the firft is the exordium to Micri - nus, which the poet confines within the compafs of four verfes. ❋ Unknown (1790)

Macba and Moriogan; the firft was the wife of Cuill or Macuillj the fecond of Ceacbt or Maceacbty and the third of Grian or Magreine. ❋ Unknown (1786)

The firft was the fiege of Barce - lona, fuilained with the moft heroic fpirit and con** ilancy by its inhabitants only, againft a large and regular army, under a celebrated General, ❋ Unknown (1785)

Bayle, Harris, and other wri - ters of this clafs, fhould have the text read firft, which is quickly dif - patchedj then, begin again and take in the notes. ❋ Unknown (1783)

The grand fquadron con fitted of four divifions, the firft of which was called the firft legion, arid'the fifft fleet. ❋ Unknown (1780)

The firft, which is now before us, is called Bibliography; the fecond, is to contain an hiftory of literature. ❋ Unknown (1780)

The fatire isdivi 'into three parts: the firft is the exordium to Mi nus, which the poet confines within the compai four verfes. ❋ Unknown (1779)

The firft will be a fmall Eclipfe of the Sun oa Friday the 31ft of January, at 1% minutes after 6 o'cicck ii the morning, invifible to us. ❋ Unknown (1779)

Befides, he may not be altogether miftaken, in calling his firft Adad king of Damafcus 5 for he certainly was king or chief over that province, though he did not refide there. ❋ Unknown (1779)

By 'calling his firft Adad the Hadadezer of Zobah, we re - concile him with the Scripture. ❋ Unknown (1779)

But, as Mr. fyarburton ingenioufly obfervM to me, the firft is a i beautiful aad fatirical expreffion. ❋ Unknown (1773)