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... become of the joyous shouting , the loud blessings , which formerly hovered round the tri- umphal car of the monarch , when he used to dis- play , before the enchanted people , the eclat of his sov- ereign majesty ? They are supplied by ...
... become of the joyous shouting , the loud blessings , which formerly hovered round the tri- umphal car of the monarch , when he used to dis- play , before the enchanted people , the eclat of his sov- ereign majesty ? They are supplied by ...
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... become the accomplice of your murderers , and , if there is any dependence on the calculations of probability , you have prepared the footsteps of your scaffold ! " No memorable event signalized that day . I ob- 14 THE MAGDALEN.
... become the accomplice of your murderers , and , if there is any dependence on the calculations of probability , you have prepared the footsteps of your scaffold ! " No memorable event signalized that day . I ob- 14 THE MAGDALEN.
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... become under their fallacious or erroneous pen , the organ of sophis- try , and the instrument of ambition ; under the seduc- ing smiles of the second , they have concealed the most ferocious designs , and the most impolitic rea ...
... become under their fallacious or erroneous pen , the organ of sophis- try , and the instrument of ambition ; under the seduc- ing smiles of the second , they have concealed the most ferocious designs , and the most impolitic rea ...
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... becoming executioners ! Mal . What is to be done then ? Dum . The fate of Louis is still in his own hands . Mal . I do not understand you . ( My involuntary alteration of voice encouraged the interlocutor . ) Dum . All may be reduced to ...
... becoming executioners ! Mal . What is to be done then ? Dum . The fate of Louis is still in his own hands . Mal . I do not understand you . ( My involuntary alteration of voice encouraged the interlocutor . ) Dum . All may be reduced to ...
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... become worthy of representing the first people on earth ; the people , happy under a rational liberty , will enjoy their rights , and respect their duties ; the coalesced kings will sue for peace , a firm government will be estab ...
... become worthy of representing the first people on earth ; the people , happy under a rational liberty , will enjoy their rights , and respect their duties ; the coalesced kings will sue for peace , a firm government will be estab ...
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Page 1 - Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow, which, while it executes, alarms; And startles thousands with a single fall.
Page 121 - He deprecates those murmurs of surprise or displeasure, which his discourse evidently called forth more than once, 4 though not so much on his own account as on that of the dikasts, who will be benefited by hearing him, and who will hurt themselves and their city much more than him, if they should now pronounce condemnation.
Page 137 - Unanimously conspiring against me, they daily invent some new humiliation, which adds to the horror of my destiny ; they distil, drop by drop on my wounded heart, the poison of adversity, numbering my sighs with delight, and before they quaff my blood, they quench their thirst • with my tears.