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Occasioned by poverty, and necessity the cause of changes and revolution, 19.

From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William

Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's Amour.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Occasioned the fall of Jerusalem after the death of Solomon, 177.-- 

From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William

Occasioned by a late illegal Attempt to discover Witches by Swimming, J. Roberts, 6d.

From The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. by Worrall, J.

Occasioned by reading the following maxim in Rochefoucauld, "Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose, qui ne nous déplait pas."

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst