 ... government.", to whom, indeed, the selling of impunity or of pardon was a common source of emolument. A Zantiotc nobleman not long ago, on his deathbed, pistolled his own brother; another administered a slow poison to the only son of a rival, as the...  Journal of a Tour in the Levant - Página 180por William Turner - 1820 - 480 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1822 - 428 páginas
...poison to the only son of a rival, as the most bitter vengeance he could take on the father. The poor boy survived, but is to this day a wretched object...always the ready instruments of their vengeance.' (P. 180.) Such are the nobles of this island, where the poor see nothing in their clergy but voluptuousness... | |
 | 1820 - 590 páginas
...pushed to such an extreme as to be detrimental to the best interests of society. When in any country there are only two classes, the very rich and the very poor, or when the tendency of political regulations is to produce this effect, as is the case under all aristocratical... | |
 | 1822 - 428 páginas
...poison to the only son of a rival, as the most bitter vengeance he could take on the father. The poor boy survived, but is to this day a wretched object...always the ready instruments of their vengeance.' (P. 180.) successor of General Campbell, and probably with as little foundation; the difficulty of... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1835 - 64 páginas
...pushed to such an extreme as to be detrimental to the best interests of society. When in any country there are only two classes, the very rich and the very poor, or when the tendency of political regulations is-to produce this effect, as is the case under all aristocratical... | |
 | 1835 - 826 páginas
...pushed to such an extreme 1*1 to be detrimental to the best interests of society. When in any country there are only two classes, the very rich and the very poor, or when the ten. dency of political regulations is to produce|ibis effect, as is the case under all... | |
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