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... grief . But hope , that soothing necromancer , dwells secretly under the horrid vaults ; it strews flowers around , and softens the rigor of captivity ; it hovers round the unfortunate king , and solaces his poignant sorrows , mingling ...
... grief . But hope , that soothing necromancer , dwells secretly under the horrid vaults ; it strews flowers around , and softens the rigor of captivity ; it hovers round the unfortunate king , and solaces his poignant sorrows , mingling ...
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... a sudden , under the multiplied weight of the imprudent skaters , the ice cracks , breaks , and opens a dreadful gap . O grief ! I saw the hope and love of several families reel , plunge , and roll with the 48 THE MAGDALEN.
... a sudden , under the multiplied weight of the imprudent skaters , the ice cracks , breaks , and opens a dreadful gap . O grief ! I saw the hope and love of several families reel , plunge , and roll with the 48 THE MAGDALEN.
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... grief and misfortune . " I learn today that this letter was presented to the assembly , where it excited warm debates , which end- ed in a call for the order of the day . End of December , beginning of January . It would be difficult to ...
... grief and misfortune . " I learn today that this letter was presented to the assembly , where it excited warm debates , which end- ed in a call for the order of the day . End of December , beginning of January . It would be difficult to ...
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... grief , he appeared like the counsellor , and I like the victim . At this moment , Michonis , the municipal officer , under pretence of informing the king of the extinction of a fire , which had broken out on the preceding night in the ...
... grief , he appeared like the counsellor , and I like the victim . At this moment , Michonis , the municipal officer , under pretence of informing the king of the extinction of a fire , which had broken out on the preceding night in the ...
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... grief . Though I had no longer any hopes , unwilling to see the king expire on a scaffold , I suggested to him the idea of a reprieve as a last resource . The king smiled kindly ; you are ingenious in deceiving me and abusing yourself ...
... grief . Though I had no longer any hopes , unwilling to see the king expire on a scaffold , I suggested to him the idea of a reprieve as a last resource . The king smiled kindly ; you are ingenious in deceiving me and abusing yourself ...
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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.