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... duties of justice . I also wish to obtain again the necessary implements for writ- ing ..... It is astonishing , replied Cambacérès , as he turn- ed towards his colleagues , and the two municipal offi- cers , to see vexations of this ...
... duties of justice . I also wish to obtain again the necessary implements for writ- ing ..... It is astonishing , replied Cambacérès , as he turn- ed towards his colleagues , and the two municipal offi- cers , to see vexations of this ...
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... duties ; the coalesced kings will sue for peace , a firm government will be estab- lished , and will take deep root in a soil hitherto torn up by factions , which overwhelm and smother it ; and the first act of its power will be to ...
... duties ; the coalesced kings will sue for peace , a firm government will be estab- lished , and will take deep root in a soil hitherto torn up by factions , which overwhelm and smother it ; and the first act of its power will be to ...
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... duty to the king . From the magnificent bridge , Peronnett's masterpiece , from that monument to which Louis XVI . gave his name , I contemplat- ed , for some time , a playful band of schoolboys , whose feet , provided with skates ...
... duty to the king . From the magnificent bridge , Peronnett's masterpiece , from that monument to which Louis XVI . gave his name , I contemplat- ed , for some time , a playful band of schoolboys , whose feet , provided with skates ...
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... duty with the tender pity due to misfortune , received the cravat , which his majesty wore on the 10th . of August . What recol- lections must ever accompany this trifling gift ! Louis learnt from him , that Toulan , from the hor- rors ...
... duty with the tender pity due to misfortune , received the cravat , which his majesty wore on the 10th . of August . What recol- lections must ever accompany this trifling gift ! Louis learnt from him , that Toulan , from the hor- rors ...
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... duty with as much decency as sensibility . Louis appeared delighted with his presence , he con- versed about the author's works , as if he had read them profitably . " What an immense distance there is from the walls of this dreary ...
... duty with as much decency as sensibility . Louis appeared delighted with his presence , he con- versed about the author's works , as if he had read them profitably . " What an immense distance there is from the walls of this dreary ...
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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.
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