[Ads-l] Antedating of "this, that, and the other"

[Steven Losie]

THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER (OED3, 1646)

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...after a thousand calls of GOD to doe this, that, and the other duty of
Repentance, faith and holinesse, he is so inwrapped in darknesse, that many
things are gone about, and few things are done...
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Source: The young-mans warning-peece, or, A sermon preached at the buriall
of William Rogers... (London, 1639), p.33. (Early English Books Online)
Author: Robert Abbott
Link:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A19568.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

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