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... seems to have been this slight trophy of persevering and stupendous folly ; for it may be doubted if the persecutions of Mary , in whose reign it was regained to France , contributed to her unpopularity in any degree like the loss of ...
... seems to have been this slight trophy of persevering and stupendous folly ; for it may be doubted if the persecutions of Mary , in whose reign it was regained to France , contributed to her unpopularity in any degree like the loss of ...
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... seems difficult to comprehend how they could have stirred and inflamed the passions of the raging multitudes who really made the revolu- tion , not one in a hundred of whom could read , or had ever heard of them ! No - it was not ...
... seems difficult to comprehend how they could have stirred and inflamed the passions of the raging multitudes who really made the revolu- tion , not one in a hundred of whom could read , or had ever heard of them ! No - it was not ...
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... seems , become localised . The Duke d'Enghien died in the twelfth year of the Republic , month Ventose - that is , March 1804 . เ ' There is only one Frenchman the more ! ' said Louis XVIII . , when he again found himself at the ...
... seems , become localised . The Duke d'Enghien died in the twelfth year of the Republic , month Ventose - that is , March 1804 . เ ' There is only one Frenchman the more ! ' said Louis XVIII . , when he again found himself at the ...
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... seems to have better read and under- stood the Spanish character than this princess . The power of Espartero melted away like snow before a summer's sun , and he owed it to the speed of his horse that he got safe on board a British ship ...
... seems to have better read and under- stood the Spanish character than this princess . The power of Espartero melted away like snow before a summer's sun , and he owed it to the speed of his horse that he got safe on board a British ship ...
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... seems to us quite reasonable ones - were very mo- derately expressed . Progress was prayed for - progress in the right direction - not headlong haste and change . To all these representations and prayers Louis - Philippe and M. Guizot ...
... seems to us quite reasonable ones - were very mo- derately expressed . Progress was prayed for - progress in the right direction - not headlong haste and change . To all these representations and prayers Louis - Philippe and M. Guizot ...
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Сторінка 31 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Сторінка 31 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees: Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Сторінка 4 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Сторінка 4 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho...
Сторінка 9 - We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully and zealously endeavor to support and maintain.
Сторінка 31 - Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times — Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes.
Сторінка 23 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Сторінка 3 - A gentle answer did the old Man make, In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew: And him with further words I thus bespake, 'What occupation do you there pursue ? This is a lonesome place for one like you.
Сторінка 31 - My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped : When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!