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Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a Review of His ... - Page 75
by Walter Wilson - 1830
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The Life of Andrew Melville: Containing Illustrations of the ..., Volume 2

Thomas M'Crie - Literature and society - 1819 - 570 pages
...authors, and to the honour of the individual who was the victim of their violent but impotent revenge. Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes *. When Melville was thrown into the Tower, the fate of his brethren was also fixed. His nephew was...
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The Life of Andrew Melville: Containing Illustrations of the ..., Volume 2

Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1824 - 566 pages
...authors, and to the honour of the individual who was the victim of their violent but impotent revenge. Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit hia crimes *. When Melville was thrown into the Tower, the fate of his brethren was also fixed. His...
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The Life of Andrew Melville: Containing Illustrations of the ..., Volume 2

Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1824 - 600 pages
...who was the victim of their violent but impotent revenge. Tell them the men that placed him here Arc scandals to the times, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes *. . When Melville was thrown into the Tower, the fate of his brethren was also fixed. His nephew was...
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a ..., Volume 2

Walter Wilson - 1830 - 560 pages
...have been secure, Had he said less, or would he ha' said more. Tell them that this is his reward, And worse is yet for him prepared, Because his foolish...revenge upon his enemies for their abuse of power. Cibber justly says of him, " Mr. De Foe, who possessed a resolute temper, and a most confirmed fortitude...
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a ..., Volume 2

Walter Wilson - 1830 - 560 pages
...Because his foolish virtue was so nice As not to sell his friends, according to his friends' advice. Acd thus he's an example made, To make men of their honesty...revenge upon his enemies for their abuse of power. Cibber justly says of him, " Mr. De Foe, who possessed a resolute temper, and a most confirmed fortitude...
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The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt, Volume 1

Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 972 pages
...good even to public satisfaction. " Tell them the men that pluc'd him there Are scandals to the time, Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crime." " 1 «liuul.l enlarge on this subject, but that, perhaps, the world may in some proper teuoD...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 82

1845 - 718 pages
...he saw the Hymn passed from hand to hand, and heard what it calmly said less calmly repeated, — ' Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit Itis crimes' An undeniable witness who was present (a noted Tory libeller of the day, Ned Ward) frankly...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 6

1845 - 608 pages
...Hymn passed from hand to hand, and heard what it calmly said less calmly repeated, — ' Tell them ihe men that placed him here Are scandals to the times; Are at a loss to find his guilt, .¡ml can't commit Au crimes.' An undeniable witness who was present (a noted Tory libeller of the...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 9-12

Great Britain - 1846 - 670 pages
...up with a sting sharp enough to deter the ministers from provoking him by another procedure : — " Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes !" In his prison he did not give himself up to despair. He had all his prospects in life cut off; his manufactory...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1846 - 718 pages
...aimed at the Attorney-General, whom he suspected, however unjustly, of having deceived him : — " Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals...to the times : Are at a loss to find his guilt. And can'/ commit his crimes. ' July 29. ThJ8 was published, and sold in thousands, the day he De Foe in...
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