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Agrippa VIJames Winthrop14 December 1787by James Winthrop, AgrippaTo the People.To prevent any mistakes, or misapprehensions of the argument, stated in my last paper, to prove that the…
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(A). A person who bestows his tediousness on you; one who wearies you with his prate, his company, or his solicitations. Verb bear, bore, borne, to endure. A bore is someone we bore with…
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