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... cause of those shameful results ? Is the rev- olution one of those storms dealing the thunderbolt , which destroys , and the dew , which fertilizes ? Wo to the stupendous mountains ! Wo to the superb ed- ifices ! Wo to the lofty oak ...
... cause of those shameful results ? Is the rev- olution one of those storms dealing the thunderbolt , which destroys , and the dew , which fertilizes ? Wo to the stupendous mountains ! Wo to the superb ed- ifices ! Wo to the lofty oak ...
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... cause ; is it not owing to a discovery , which I have made , that Du- mouriez with an enlightened mind is possessed of a false heart ? ..... What follows proves that I was not miş → taken . I shall analyze our conversation . VOL . II ...
... cause ; is it not owing to a discovery , which I have made , that Du- mouriez with an enlightened mind is possessed of a false heart ? ..... What follows proves that I was not miş → taken . I shall analyze our conversation . VOL . II ...
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... causes of human passions , Paris , where the awful scene is dis- played , seems to view it with indifference . No new bustle seems to interfere with the daily movements , uniform and incessant in this great metropolis . The same ...
... causes of human passions , Paris , where the awful scene is dis- played , seems to view it with indifference . No new bustle seems to interfere with the daily movements , uniform and incessant in this great metropolis . The same ...
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... cause to flow , and on the sweet repose thus interrupted , be- holds with awe the flood of misery and torrent of crimes about to overflow this wretched kingdom , to sweep away its former and ancient errors ; this re- flection breaks the ...
... cause to flow , and on the sweet repose thus interrupted , be- holds with awe the flood of misery and torrent of crimes about to overflow this wretched kingdom , to sweep away its former and ancient errors ; this re- flection breaks the ...
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... cause , read his work before the king and before us . The king appeared very much pleased , but I am not so much so . This defence appears to me more verbose than eloquent , too methodical and without warmth , barren of those ...
... cause , read his work before the king and before us . The king appeared very much pleased , but I am not so much so . This defence appears to me more verbose than eloquent , too methodical and without warmth , barren of those ...
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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...
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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.