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            1.                                           Receiving,                                                         or                                                         entitled                                                         to                                                         have                                                         or                                                         receive,                                                         advantage,                                                         use,                                                         or                                                         benefit;                                                         as,                                                         the                                                           beneficial                                                         owner                                                         of                                                         an                                                         estate.                                    

            2.                                           King.                                    

            3.                                             Conferring                                                           benefits;                                                         useful;                                                         profitable;                                                         helpful;                                                         advantageous;                                                         serviceable;                                                           contributing                                                         to                                                           a                                                         valuable                                                         end; -                                                         followed                                                         by                                                         to.                                    

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The first has considerably increased the entries into the public treasury, and the second has tended to multiply the general mass of mercantile operations, independent of the other beneficial effects this last measure must have produced in a country, whose resources, trade and consumption had, from the time of the conquest, experienced the fatal shackles imposed by jealousy and ignorance. - "The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes", Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes.
You will likewise understand that if the disease- as is certainly the case- does not attack the same animal twice, it would be very beneficial to inoculate the animal whilst he is sound and healthy, whenever this scourge threatens- as in the present time- to attack all cattle. - "On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment", HonorÃ© Bourguignon.
A bath is only beneficial when it is followed by a healthy reaction, which is indicated by an agreeable feeling of warmth and comfort, and is injurious if the subject feels cold, weak or depressed. - "Arizona Sketches", Joseph A. Munk.

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