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... crime by saving from the axe the best of men , the most wretched of kings . " I supposed that my devotedness would be so much the more useful to him , who was the object of it , that being looked upon for a long time as a mem- ber of ...
... crime by saving from the axe the best of men , the most wretched of kings . " I supposed that my devotedness would be so much the more useful to him , who was the object of it , that being looked upon for a long time as a mem- ber of ...
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... crime , error , prejudice , and igno- rance . The convention , arrested by this insurmount- able obstacle , will be compelled , if they receive your plea , to convocate a high court , and , if they resist it , to restore , if not your ...
... crime , error , prejudice , and igno- rance . The convention , arrested by this insurmount- able obstacle , will be compelled , if they receive your plea , to convocate a high court , and , if they resist it , to restore , if not your ...
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... crime , or to practice virtue , on all occasions . " Being disguised with a large cloak , and a large brimmed hat , which the sheriff allowed me to wear on account of my age and infirmities , I saw Louis present himself to the ...
... crime , or to practice virtue , on all occasions . " Being disguised with a large cloak , and a large brimmed hat , which the sheriff allowed me to wear on account of my age and infirmities , I saw Louis present himself to the ...
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... crimes by their passions , to slavery by their licentiousness ; there usurpers without humanity , penning up , like vile cattle , the children of nature , enumerating their devoted heads , and sacrificing them to satiate their cruelty ...
... crimes by their passions , to slavery by their licentiousness ; there usurpers without humanity , penning up , like vile cattle , the children of nature , enumerating their devoted heads , and sacrificing them to satiate their cruelty ...
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... crimes ! Happy he , who may feed on the fruits promised by the volcanic irruption of our torn up soil ! Happy above all since enjoying benefits , he shall not have witnessed , he shall not have felt , the horrors of their origin ...
... crimes ! Happy he , who may feed on the fruits promised by the volcanic irruption of our torn up soil ! Happy above all since enjoying benefits , he shall not have witnessed , he shall not have felt , the horrors of their origin ...
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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.