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... victims to becoming executioners ! Mal . What is to be done then ? Dum . The fate of Louis is still in his own hands . Mal . I do not understand you . ( My involuntary alteration of voice encouraged the interlocutor . ) Dum . All may be ...
... victims to becoming executioners ! Mal . What is to be done then ? Dum . The fate of Louis is still in his own hands . Mal . I do not understand you . ( My involuntary alteration of voice encouraged the interlocutor . ) Dum . All may be ...
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... victims , which they intended to sacrifice to their infernal deities . Louis reads with a seeming indifference all the horrid paragraphs printed against him . The Even- ing Journal , and the Moniteur excite his feelings astonishingly ...
... victims , which they intended to sacrifice to their infernal deities . Louis reads with a seeming indifference all the horrid paragraphs printed against him . The Even- ing Journal , and the Moniteur excite his feelings astonishingly ...
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... victims ? Mingle , above all , in all your actions the spirit of a pious justice , which may conciliate the glory of Heaven , to the interest of mortal men . Be mild without weakness , religious without superstition , equitable without ...
... victims ? Mingle , above all , in all your actions the spirit of a pious justice , which may conciliate the glory of Heaven , to the interest of mortal men . Be mild without weakness , religious without superstition , equitable without ...
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... victims for posterity . But one hope remains , and consoles me . The furious storm , which pours on France a bloody rain , will be succeeded by a calm and brilliant day , to the confusion of crime , and the triumph of virtue . Then ...
... victims for posterity . But one hope remains , and consoles me . The furious storm , which pours on France a bloody rain , will be succeeded by a calm and brilliant day , to the confusion of crime , and the triumph of virtue . Then ...
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... victim . At this moment , Michonis , the municipal officer , under pretence of informing the king of the extinction of a fire , which had broken out on the preceding night in the palace of the Temple , came in to lavish consolations ...
... victim . At this moment , Michonis , the municipal officer , under pretence of informing the king of the extinction of a fire , which had broken out on the preceding night in the palace of the Temple , came in to lavish consolations ...
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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.