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... ! you have become the 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.
... ! you have become the 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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... scaffold . The dagger is held over the breasts of the voters , and there are so few of them , who would prefer being victims to becoming executioners ! Mal . What is to be done then ? Dum . The fate of Louis is still in his own hands ...
... scaffold . The dagger is held over the breasts of the voters , and there are so few of them , who would prefer being victims to becoming executioners ! Mal . What is to be done then ? Dum . The fate of Louis is still in his own hands ...
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... scaffold ? Mal . An innocent man makes it an altar . Dum . His blood would foment revenge , an incalcu lable source of misfortunes . Mal . It is to prevent them , that the king stoops to a defence . If the fate of the French nation ...
... scaffold ? Mal . An innocent man makes it an altar . Dum . His blood would foment revenge , an incalcu lable source of misfortunes . Mal . It is to prevent them , that the king stoops to a defence . If the fate of the French nation ...
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... scaffold is erected . Mal . ( With vehemence and anger . ) Well , sir , since you put up your sovereign's head at vendue , fix the price in a manner , that may drain the purse with- out wounding conscience and hearts . Dum . ( He ...
... scaffold is erected . Mal . ( With vehemence and anger . ) Well , sir , since you put up your sovereign's head at vendue , fix the price in a manner , that may drain the purse with- out wounding conscience and hearts . Dum . ( He ...
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... scaffold . The medi ation of the European powers is mentioned , as well as an exile in Spain . The king is less engaged on this point , pregnant with his fate , than in devis- ing means to correspond with his family . Clery has already ...
... scaffold . The medi ation of the European powers is mentioned , as well as an exile in Spain . The king is less engaged on this point , pregnant with his fate , than in devis- ing means to correspond with his family . Clery has already ...
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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.
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