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... liberty ' de- creed by the tribunal of the seventh of August , I had retired into the country , convinced , that my presence in Paris could no longer be useful to him , who was once my master , and that it might be dangerous 6 THE MAGDALEN.
... liberty ' de- creed by the tribunal of the seventh of August , I had retired into the country , convinced , that my presence in Paris could no longer be useful to him , who was once my master , and that it might be dangerous 6 THE MAGDALEN.
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... liberty for him to kiss me , a request , which I granted with extreme pleasure . I did not feel , without the liveliest emotion , and the public did not observe with indifference , those little hands press- ing my wrinkled face , and ...
... liberty for him to kiss me , a request , which I granted with extreme pleasure . I did not feel , without the liveliest emotion , and the public did not observe with indifference , those little hands press- ing my wrinkled face , and ...
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... liberty , at least your re- pose . But , if notwithstanding this claim , they proceed in the trial , as it would be contrary to reason and justice , they would be exposed to the ridicule and execration of mankind . " " Dec. 12th ...
... liberty , at least your re- pose . But , if notwithstanding this claim , they proceed in the trial , as it would be contrary to reason and justice , they would be exposed to the ridicule and execration of mankind . " " Dec. 12th ...
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... liberty ! Among those , who command him , some were born his meanest subjects , they reign now ! Fortune , with one turn of her wheel , levelled the monarch in the dust , and raised the peasant on the throne . The tatters of misery ...
... liberty ! Among those , who command him , some were born his meanest subjects , they reign now ! Fortune , with one turn of her wheel , levelled the monarch in the dust , and raised the peasant on the throne . The tatters of misery ...
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... liberty , but they are only permitted to enjoy pillage ! They are told , here is bread ; they look and behold mangled carcases ! ..... Ought one to detest the cause of those shameful results ? Is the rev- olution one of those storms ...
... liberty , but they are only permitted to enjoy pillage ! They are told , here is bread ; they look and behold mangled carcases ! ..... Ought one to detest the cause of those shameful results ? Is the rev- olution one of those storms ...
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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.