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... gave it a favourable reception , and the king expressed his thanks . I record a fact here , which does more honour to those , who supported me , than it gave me pleasure . The first time , that I pre- sented myself before the commission ...
... gave it a favourable reception , and the king expressed his thanks . I record a fact here , which does more honour to those , who supported me , than it gave me pleasure . The first time , that I pre- sented myself before the commission ...
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... gave it the appearance of midnight . Methinks I yet behold this file of armed men ; I can hear the regular steps of their methodical march ; I yet hear the grinding of the sand , crushed by the heavy weight of the wheels of the cannon ...
... gave it the appearance of midnight . Methinks I yet behold this file of armed men ; I can hear the regular steps of their methodical march ; I yet hear the grinding of the sand , crushed by the heavy weight of the wheels of the cannon ...
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... gave charms to his captivity . This closet was filled with books , of which he had read more than two hundred since his confinement . Speak frankly , said he to me , what do you think of my trial ? ..... Sire , the mode adopted for it ...
... gave charms to his captivity . This closet was filled with books , of which he had read more than two hundred since his confinement . Speak frankly , said he to me , what do you think of my trial ? ..... Sire , the mode adopted for it ...
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... gave his name , I contemplat- ed , for some time , a playful band of schoolboys , whose feet , provided with skates , slid rapidly forward , and fancifully traced innumerable curves on the polished crystal of the frozen Seine . The most ...
... gave his name , I contemplat- ed , for some time , a playful band of schoolboys , whose feet , provided with skates , slid rapidly forward , and fancifully traced innumerable curves on the polished crystal of the frozen Seine . The most ...
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... gave an account to his majesty of what I had heard and observed , in the congress of the ambassa- dors , and I expressed at the same time my displeas- ure . " Nothing astonishes me now , answered the king ; but your friendship melts me ...
... gave an account to his majesty of what I had heard and observed , in the congress of the ambassa- dors , and I expressed at the same time my displeas- ure . " Nothing astonishes me now , answered the king ; but your friendship melts me ...
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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.