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... prison , and threatened by cruel execu- tioners . " The lightning , darting on his stripped brow , gives additional horror to this mansion of grief . But hope , that soothing necromancer , dwells secretly under the horrid vaults ; it ...
... prison , and threatened by cruel execu- tioners . " The lightning , darting on his stripped brow , gives additional horror to this mansion of grief . But hope , that soothing necromancer , dwells secretly under the horrid vaults ; it ...
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... shewn us by Louis ..... I beheld him again ; to reach his prison , I passed nine iron gates , three wickets , and a guard house filled with drunken soldiers smoke ing . I went through a throng of jailers , 18 THE MAGDALEN.
... shewn us by Louis ..... I beheld him again ; to reach his prison , I passed nine iron gates , three wickets , and a guard house filled with drunken soldiers smoke ing . I went through a throng of jailers , 18 THE MAGDALEN.
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... prison , fed with humiliation and disdain . Let that great les- son teach you a contempt for power and opulence , to appreciate only goodness of heart , rectitude of judg- ment , a moderation of conduct , and all the virtues , which ...
... prison , fed with humiliation and disdain . Let that great les- son teach you a contempt for power and opulence , to appreciate only goodness of heart , rectitude of judg- ment , a moderation of conduct , and all the virtues , which ...
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... prisons , I can without inconvenience introduce you into that of the queen . Will you follow me ? I did not hesitate a moment , and I soon arrived at the gates of the Conciergerie . They had twice been the limits of my liberty , and I ...
... prisons , I can without inconvenience introduce you into that of the queen . Will you follow me ? I did not hesitate a moment , and I soon arrived at the gates of the Conciergerie . They had twice been the limits of my liberty , and I ...
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... prison , of those of Toulan , and of a small number of devoted friends , who act without , the confession , which I shall make to you , will enlight en you to shape the counsels , which I am about to ask , on the conduct that you must ...
... prison , of those of Toulan , and of a small number of devoted friends , who act without , the confession , which I shall make to you , will enlight en you to shape the counsels , which I am about to ask , on the conduct that you must ...
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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.