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... regicide with an annihilated revenue , with defaced manufactures , with a ruined commerce , with an un- cultivated and half - depopulated country , with a discontented , distressed , enslaved , and famished people , passing with a rapid ...
... regicide with an annihilated revenue , with defaced manufactures , with a ruined commerce , with an un- cultivated and half - depopulated country , with a discontented , distressed , enslaved , and famished people , passing with a rapid ...
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... regicide republic , have been made out of the wrecks and fragments of the general confederacy . So far as to the selfish part . As composing a part of the com- munity of Europe , and interested in its fate , it is not easy to conceive a ...
... regicide republic , have been made out of the wrecks and fragments of the general confederacy . So far as to the selfish part . As composing a part of the com- munity of Europe , and interested in its fate , it is not easy to conceive a ...
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... regicide enemy possessed of the most important part of Europe , and struggling for the rest : within ourselves a total relaxation of all authority , whilst a cry is raised against it , as if it were the most ferocious of all despotism ...
... regicide enemy possessed of the most important part of Europe , and struggling for the rest : within ourselves a total relaxation of all authority , whilst a cry is raised against it , as if it were the most ferocious of all despotism ...
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... regicide to exert and to increase its force . Is it that the people are changed , that the commonwealth cannot be protected by its laws ? I hardly think it . On the contrary , I conceive , that these things happen because men are not ...
... regicide to exert and to increase its force . Is it that the people are changed , that the commonwealth cannot be protected by its laws ? I hardly think it . On the contrary , I conceive , that these things happen because men are not ...
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... regicides we could by any selection of time , or use of means , obtain anything at all deserving the name of peace . In one point we are lucky . The regicide has received our advances with scorn . We have an enemy , to whose virtues we ...
... regicides we could by any selection of time , or use of means , obtain anything at all deserving the name of peace . In one point we are lucky . The regicide has received our advances with scorn . We have an enemy , to whose virtues we ...
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Page 541 - CHAUCER'S Poetical Works. With Poems formerly attributed to him. With a Memoir, Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, by R. Bell. Improved edition, with Preliminary Essay by Rev.
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Page 181 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Page 545 - SCHILLER'S WORKS continued. II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Page 135 - ... of the low fat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...