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... during this prosecution . Each evening , when he returned from the Temple , he recorded on his faith ful tablets what he had observed , heard or felt A 2 CHURCHYARD . 5 More now than in any part of my narration I ...
... during this prosecution . Each evening , when he returned from the Temple , he recorded on his faith ful tablets what he had observed , heard or felt A 2 CHURCHYARD . 5 More now than in any part of my narration I ...
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Jean-Joseph Regnault-Warin. ful tablets what he had observed , heard or felt . He permitted me the next day to extract what I should find entertaining . Those extracts will enable me to conclude my recital respecting Louis XVI . I shall ...
Jean-Joseph Regnault-Warin. ful tablets what he had observed , heard or felt . He permitted me the next day to extract what I should find entertaining . Those extracts will enable me to conclude my recital respecting Louis XVI . I shall ...
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... observe 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 ...
... observe 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 ...
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... observed a modest dark coloured coach , whose wheels revolve slowly . Who is the man possessed of the diabolical face , seated on the first seat , whose sardonic smiles are partly concealed ? The attorney of the communes , Chaumette ...
... observed a modest dark coloured coach , whose wheels revolve slowly . Who is the man possessed of the diabolical face , seated on the first seat , whose sardonic smiles are partly concealed ? The attorney of the communes , Chaumette ...
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... observed nations without control impelled to crimes by their passions , to slavery by their licentiousness ; there usurpers without humanity , penning up , like vile cattle , the children of nature , enumerating their devoted heads ...
... observed nations without control impelled to crimes by their passions , to slavery by their licentiousness ; there usurpers without humanity , penning up , like vile cattle , the children of nature , enumerating their devoted heads ...
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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.