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1709. Shaftesb., Inq. Virtue, Charac. (1711), II. 38. That sound and well-establish’d Reason, which alone can constitute … a uniform and steddy Will and Resolution.
1741. Watts, Improv. Mind, I. xviii. § 27. We ought … to stand firm in such well-established principles, and not be tempted to change … for the sake of every difficulty.
1772. Ann. Reg., 188/1. There are therefore many well-established families in this last-mentioned place.
1865. Lubbock, Prehist. Times, xi. 337. Although there are some well-established cases of national decay.
1870. Bowen, Logic, xii. 394. Any well-established Law of Nature.
1887. Spons’ Househ. Man., 714. Some well-established shop, famed rather for the soundness of its goods than for their apparent cheapness.
