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... hand of the revolution has rent the veil , the monarch , who was formerly lulled to sleep by the enchanting melody of music , who voluptuously pressed the down of a royal couch , and slumbered undisturbed under silken undulating ...
... hand of the revolution has rent the veil , the monarch , who was formerly lulled to sleep by the enchanting melody of music , who voluptuously pressed the down of a royal couch , and slumbered undisturbed under silken undulating ...
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... hand . " MEMOIRS OF THE LAST DAYS OF LOUIS XVI . " COPIED FROM M. DE MALESHERBES ' TABLETS . " After the famous results of the conferences held in the street of the Dry Tree ; and my liberty ' de- creed by the tribunal of the seventh of ...
... hand . " MEMOIRS OF THE LAST DAYS OF LOUIS XVI . " COPIED FROM M. DE MALESHERBES ' TABLETS . " After the famous results of the conferences held in the street of the Dry Tree ; and my liberty ' de- creed by the tribunal of the seventh of ...
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... with indifference , those little hands press- ing my wrinkled face , and the flaxen locks of this lovely Infant mingled with the grey hair of an old man . withered with years . Before I wrote this letter of the 11th . of 8 THE MAGDALEN.
... with indifference , those little hands press- ing my wrinkled face , and the flaxen locks of this lovely Infant mingled with the grey hair of an old man . withered with years . Before I wrote this letter of the 11th . of 8 THE MAGDALEN.
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... hand , squeez- ed it repeatedly with tenderness , he even embraced me ; but all this augmented my agitation , and I found much difficulty in summoning the resolution necessary on this sad occasion ; my soul was rent , when I looked at ...
... hand , squeez- ed it repeatedly with tenderness , he even embraced me ; but all this augmented my agitation , and I found much difficulty in summoning the resolution necessary on this sad occasion ; my soul was rent , when I looked at ...
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... hand me a billet from a gentleman demanding immediately a private interview relating to my present engagement ; I ordered the person to be admitted , and when introduced he was unknown to me . We remained alone , I was not a little ...
... hand me a billet from a gentleman demanding immediately a private interview relating to my present engagement ; I ordered the person to be admitted , and when introduced he was unknown to me . We remained alone , I was not a little ...
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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.