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... majesty of supreme power , are you then but the tinsel chime- ra of seducing delusion ; the fantastical fabric of ac- cumulated clouds , piled in the horizon at the decline of day , dazzling our imagination with the vivid tints of their ...
... majesty of supreme power , are you then but the tinsel chime- ra of seducing delusion ; the fantastical fabric of ac- cumulated clouds , piled in the horizon at the decline of day , dazzling our imagination with the vivid tints of their ...
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... majesty's windows , which defeated the object of the telegraphical apparatus , I must give up the recital to M. de Malesherbes . This venerable old man , who had been twice the minister of Louis during his prosperity , claimed , as an ...
... majesty's windows , which defeated the object of the telegraphical apparatus , I must give up the recital to M. de Malesherbes . This venerable old man , who had been twice the minister of Louis during his prosperity , claimed , as an ...
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... majesty's antichamber several tapers , in one of which I had secreted the following letter , written on velum with indelible ink , so that the melting of the wax could not alter the words . Clery handed it to Louis . ANONYMOUS LETTER ...
... majesty's antichamber several tapers , in one of which I had secreted the following letter , written on velum with indelible ink , so that the melting of the wax could not alter the words . Clery handed it to Louis . ANONYMOUS LETTER ...
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... majesty to express his attachment to your person , by advising you how to conduct in the prosecution , intended against you . " A great majority of the nation , and of the as- sembly , are alike convinced , that the convention have no ...
... majesty to express his attachment to your person , by advising you how to conduct in the prosecution , intended against you . " A great majority of the nation , and of the as- sembly , are alike convinced , that the convention have no ...
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... car of the monarch , when he used to dis- play , before the enchanted people , the eclat of his sov- ereign majesty ? They are supplied by rank hatred , humiliating disdain , and a mournful stupor . If a 12 THE MAGDALEN.
... car of the monarch , when he used to dis- play , before the enchanted people , the eclat of his sov- ereign majesty ? They are supplied by rank hatred , humiliating disdain , and a mournful stupor . If a 12 THE MAGDALEN.
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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.