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Page 150 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
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Page 114 - Farewell,' continue the United Irishmen, ' farewell, great and good man; but, before you go, we beseech a portion of your parting prayer' (down upon your marrowbones, reader) 'for Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Muir, Palmer, Margaret, and Gerald, who are now, like you, preparing to cross the bleak ocean. Farewell! soon will you embrace your sons on the American shore, Washington will take you by the hand, and the shade of Franklin look down, with calm delight on the first statesman of the age, extending...
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| Title | A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats |
| Author | William Cobbett |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J. Wright, 1797 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 175 pages |
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