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... blood . On the 10th . of December , in the evening preceding the first ap- pearance of the king at the bar , a servant boy deposit- ed in his majesty's antichamber several tapers , in one of which I had secreted the following letter ...
... blood . On the 10th . of December , in the evening preceding the first ap- pearance of the king at the bar , a servant boy deposit- ed in his majesty's antichamber several tapers , in one of which I had secreted the following letter ...
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... blood , the people watch to suffer . They have been promised liberty , but they are only permitted to enjoy pillage ! They are told , here is bread ; they look and behold mangled carcases ! ..... Ought one to detest the cause of those ...
... blood , the people watch to suffer . They have been promised liberty , but they are only permitted to enjoy pillage ! They are told , here is bread ; they look and behold mangled carcases ! ..... Ought one to detest the cause of those ...
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... blood would foment revenge , an incalcu lable source of misfortunes . Mal . It is to prevent them , that the king stoops to a defence . If the fate of the French nation , that of the present generation , and perhaps , of those unborn ...
... blood would foment revenge , an incalcu lable source of misfortunes . Mal . It is to prevent them , that the king stoops to a defence . If the fate of the French nation , that of the present generation , and perhaps , of those unborn ...
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... blood , clamour- ously claimed the heads of the human victims , which they intended to sacrifice to their infernal deities . Louis reads with a seeming indifference all the horrid paragraphs printed against him . The Even- ing Journal ...
... blood , clamour- ously claimed the heads of the human victims , which they intended to sacrifice to their infernal deities . Louis reads with a seeming indifference all the horrid paragraphs printed against him . The Even- ing Journal ...
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... blood is to purchase the political regeneration of man , now commenced in France A personage , virtuously murdering , con- siders the sacrifice of an individual to the species , as a mere arithmetical subtraction . But the man , who ...
... blood is to purchase the political regeneration of man , now commenced in France A personage , virtuously murdering , con- siders the sacrifice of an individual to the species , as a mere arithmetical subtraction . But the man , who ...
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Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 2 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
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.