first estate

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When I attended my first estate sale in November at a Beverly Hills home, a stunning vintage Teac A-7010 tape recorder caught my attention.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023

Anson MacAuslan was among the first estate managers to secure funding from Peatland Action — a project funded by the Scottish government to restore peatlands.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2020

Justinian aimed at restoring all things to their first estate.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden

If you had kept your first estate with men, and as a Kakravartin monarch ruled the world, possessing then no self-depending power of miracle, how could my soul have then received deliverance?

From Sacred Books of the East by Various

Everywhere, man had at the beginning been innocent and happy, and had lapsed, by temptation and his own weakness, from his first estate.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert