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... accomplice of your murderers , and , if there is any dependence on the calculations of probability , you have prepared the footsteps of your scaffold ! " No memorable event signalized that day . I ob- 14 THE MAGDALEN.
... accomplice of your murderers , and , if there is any dependence on the calculations of probability , you have prepared the footsteps of your scaffold ! " No memorable event signalized that day . I ob- 14 THE MAGDALEN.
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... prepare your defence ..... Whom shall we charge with that business ? ..... Sire , you cannot have a more learned man than M. Tronchet ..... Yes , but the defence must be argued , and M. Tronchet is an old man , we want a young man with ...
... prepare your defence ..... Whom shall we charge with that business ? ..... Sire , you cannot have a more learned man than M. Tronchet ..... Yes , but the defence must be argued , and M. Tronchet is an old man , we want a young man with ...
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... preparing answers to them . On the 24th . in the evening , Desèze , who prepared a speech , which contains what we think the most favourable to his majesty's cause , read his work before the king and before us . The king appeared very ...
... preparing answers to them . On the 24th . in the evening , Desèze , who prepared a speech , which contains what we think the most favourable to his majesty's cause , read his work before the king and before us . The king appeared very ...
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... Prepare , sire , to second their efforts vigorously . " This piece of intelligence , said Louis to me , whilst I copied this letter , troubles me . I revolt at the idea of conspiring ; I cannot help apprehending the prep- aration and ...
... Prepare , sire , to second their efforts vigorously . " This piece of intelligence , said Louis to me , whilst I copied this letter , troubles me . I revolt at the idea of conspiring ; I cannot help apprehending the prep- aration and ...
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... prepared a small table , on which he placed some tumblers , and a decanter of water . The king walked about plunged in a deep meditation , stopping occasionally , and as often striking his forehead with his hand . 1 At seven and thirty ...
... prepared a small table , on which he placed some tumblers , and a decanter of water . The king walked about plunged in a deep meditation , stopping occasionally , and as often striking his forehead with his hand . 1 At seven and thirty ...
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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.