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Tooke
[ took ]
noun
- (John) Horne [hawrn], 1736–1812, English politician and philologist.
Tooke
/ tʊk /
noun
- TookeJohn Horne17361812MBritishPOLITICS: radical politicianWRITING: writer John Horne, original name John Horne. 1736–1812, British radical, who founded (1771) the Constitutional Society to press for parliamentary reform: acquitted (1794) of high treason. He also wrote the philological treatise The Diversions of Purley (1786)
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As I was finishing this worke, an oyster-wife tooke exception against me and called me knave.
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We neuer tooke any of them our selves, but sometime eate of such as the inhabitants had taken & brought vnto vs.
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Horne Tooke pronounced it a bad book, calculated to do harm.
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Tooke gives a curious account of his action on this occasion.
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Mr. Tooke concludes with a case of self-accension, noticed by Mr. Hagemann, an apothecary, at Bremen.
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