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... officer , who lived , with a family of ten children , in an indigent condition , at some distance from Vienna . The emperor inquired of several old officers whether they knew this man , and received from all of them an ex- cellent ...
... officer , who lived , with a family of ten children , in an indigent condition , at some distance from Vienna . The emperor inquired of several old officers whether they knew this man , and received from all of them an ex- cellent ...
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... officer of justice , who read to him his sentence . Inhuman young man ! because you did not assist the animal that implored your aid by its cries , and who derived its being from the same God who gave you life ; because added to the ...
... officer of justice , who read to him his sentence . Inhuman young man ! because you did not assist the animal that implored your aid by its cries , and who derived its being from the same God who gave you life ; because added to the ...
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... officers , he ex- posed his person to as much danger as the com- mon soldier . By this means he not only inspired ... officer , who had brought her to England , and then de- serted her . She passed over to Ireland , where she had some ...
... officers , he ex- posed his person to as much danger as the com- mon soldier . By this means he not only inspired ... officer , who had brought her to England , and then de- serted her . She passed over to Ireland , where she had some ...
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... officer appointed captain over an old lieutenant , and inquiring the reason , was answered by his lordship , " He cannot buy . " The name struck the king , and before he signed the commissions , he turned to one of those large folios ...
... officer appointed captain over an old lieutenant , and inquiring the reason , was answered by his lordship , " He cannot buy . " The name struck the king , and before he signed the commissions , he turned to one of those large folios ...
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... officers display their science in the use of the sword ? He assented , and was much gratified with their execution . His ... officer answered , " The Croydon Volunteers , may it please your majesty . " " Ah ! ah ! " replied his majesty ...
... officers display their science in the use of the sword ? He assented , and was much gratified with their execution . His ... officer answered , " The Croydon Volunteers , may it please your majesty . " " Ah ! ah ! " replied his majesty ...
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Página 5 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 261 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion.
Página 263 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 20 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Página 5 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Página 20 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Página 18 - I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation and condition of life.
Página 20 - ... injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Página 27 - I then spoke to several other dealers, but they all sung the same song, three and six-pence, three and sixpence. This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right ; and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Página 176 - I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.