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... thrones , 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 ...
... thrones , 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 ...
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... throne . The tatters of misery protect the limbs once covered with purple ; and the astonished purpureal robes deck the mean dem- agogue , who stole the royal mantle ! What a B 2 CHURCHYARD . 17 observed all the movements of the ...
... throne . The tatters of misery protect the limbs once covered with purple ; and the astonished purpureal robes deck the mean dem- agogue , who stole the royal mantle ! What a B 2 CHURCHYARD . 17 observed all the movements of the ...
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... throne , my pride would have revolted at the idea ; people might have thought I humbled myself before power , but now I render a sincere homage to misfortune and virtue . My age and my heart are still susceptible of the most lively ...
... throne , my pride would have revolted at the idea ; people might have thought I humbled myself before power , but now I render a sincere homage to misfortune and virtue . My age and my heart are still susceptible of the most lively ...
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... throne , and humbly begged for a look ! And they believe themselves judges ! They style themselves the friends of liberty ! Cruel and deplorable abuse of words ! Justice is a severe but mild virgin , seeking with benignity and zeal for ...
... throne , and humbly begged for a look ! And they believe themselves judges ! They style themselves the friends of liberty ! Cruel and deplorable abuse of words ! Justice is a severe but mild virgin , seeking with benignity and zeal for ...
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... throne , even admitting that a powerful party could lead him out in triumph . It is not less demonstrated , that the canker of anarchy makes daily such ravages , that , in less than six months , it will devour the vitals of the country ...
... throne , even admitting that a powerful party could lead him out in triumph . It is not less demonstrated , that the canker of anarchy makes daily such ravages , that , in less than six months , it will devour the vitals of the country ...
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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.