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... lively sensibility , besides the senti- ments expressed by a mind profoundly versed in meditation , there are important details , not mentioned or known to Clery and those writers , who recorded the last days of the king . How precious ...
... lively sensibility , besides the senti- ments expressed by a mind profoundly versed in meditation , there are important details , not mentioned or known to Clery and those writers , who recorded the last days of the king . How precious ...
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... lively emotions . That , which I experienced , overwhelmed me so completely , that Louis was oblig . ed to console me . He took hold of my hand , squeez- ed it repeatedly with tenderness , he even embraced me ; but all this augmented my ...
... lively emotions . That , which I experienced , overwhelmed me so completely , that Louis was oblig . ed to console me . He took hold of my hand , squeez- ed it repeatedly with tenderness , he even embraced me ; but all this augmented my ...
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... this effusion , perhaps too lively , it is diffi- cult to govern the soul , when it is probed so deeply . Man may forgive a criminal injury , but God alone can forget it . Eight months had elapsed since the 21st . of Janu- CHURCHYARD . 129.
... this effusion , perhaps too lively , it is diffi- cult to govern the soul , when it is probed so deeply . Man may forgive a criminal injury , but God alone can forget it . Eight months had elapsed since the 21st . of Janu- CHURCHYARD . 129.
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... lively graces , and Some ex- the French frivolity of the young count ; others were lavish of their praises on the strength and dexterity of the duke , his skill in managing the most fiery steeds , his elegant Wiski , his extravagant ...
... lively graces , and Some ex- the French frivolity of the young count ; others were lavish of their praises on the strength and dexterity of the duke , his skill in managing the most fiery steeds , his elegant Wiski , his extravagant ...
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... lively and witty conversation shewed him possessed of intelligence and fancy ; and the purity of his language , the choice of his words , and that turn of expression pe- culiar to the great , madé me conclude , that he joined to the ...
... lively and witty conversation shewed him possessed of intelligence and fancy ; and the purity of his language , the choice of his words , and that turn of expression pe- culiar to the great , madé me conclude , that he joined to the ...
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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.
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