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... laws to defined cases , may not make of this affair a general question , and an object of leg- islation . " This , sire , is the best shield , which you can op- pose to the shafts of crime , error , prejudice , and igno- rance . The ...
... laws to defined cases , may not make of this affair a general question , and an object of leg- islation . " This , sire , is the best shield , which you can op- pose to the shafts of crime , error , prejudice , and igno- rance . The ...
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... law has pronounced whether he deserves it , and learn to re- spect misfortune . ” Dec. 14th . an hour before I went to the Temple . I have often reflected with philosophers on the in- significance of sublunary enjoyments ; fed with the ...
... law has pronounced whether he deserves it , and learn to re- spect misfortune . ” Dec. 14th . an hour before I went to the Temple . I have often reflected with philosophers on the in- significance of sublunary enjoyments ; fed with the ...
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... laws of Draco , the refined tortures invented by Phalaris , the anarchy of the thirty tyrants of Athens , down to the tyranny of Louis XI . of devout and bloody memory , I have examined the gallery of despots , ambitious and factious ...
... laws of Draco , the refined tortures invented by Phalaris , the anarchy of the thirty tyrants of Athens , down to the tyranny of Louis XI . of devout and bloody memory , I have examined the gallery of despots , ambitious and factious ...
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... laws and the strength of ad- ministration . To attain this desirable end , which saves , regenerates , and renovates France , a word from Louis is sufficient . This word being pronounc- ed , the heads of the hydra of democracy will ...
... laws and the strength of ad- ministration . To attain this desirable end , which saves , regenerates , and renovates France , a word from Louis is sufficient . This word being pronounc- ed , the heads of the hydra of democracy will ...
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... law , and they will see me led to the scaffold ; on the next day , they will implore the alliance of the new republic . Who knows ? perhaps even the cabinet of St. James excites the warmth manifested in my prosecution . George III ...
... law , and they will see me led to the scaffold ; on the next day , they will implore the alliance of the new republic . Who knows ? perhaps even the cabinet of St. James excites the warmth manifested in my prosecution . George III ...
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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.