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... received with deep mortification by the returned exiles , who had imagined that they possessed the confidence of the queen ; and it became the signal and pretext for fresh intrigues . They complained that the regent who had formerly ...
... received with deep mortification by the returned exiles , who had imagined that they possessed the confidence of the queen ; and it became the signal and pretext for fresh intrigues . They complained that the regent who had formerly ...
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... received fresh accessions of strength , by the adherence of the old party of the importans . The prince of Conti , influenced by the duchess of Longueville , joined them , and was declared generalissimo ; the dukes of Bouillon , D ...
... received fresh accessions of strength , by the adherence of the old party of the importans . The prince of Conti , influenced by the duchess of Longueville , joined them , and was declared generalissimo ; the dukes of Bouillon , D ...
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... on the road by the duke of Orleans , and many of his old friends ; and the whole city received him , as one returned from some great achievement . Bonfires , as numerous and splendid as those which had LOUIS XIV . 19.
... on the road by the duke of Orleans , and many of his old friends ; and the whole city received him , as one returned from some great achievement . Bonfires , as numerous and splendid as those which had LOUIS XIV . 19.
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... receiving them in payment of taxes . They immediately fell in value , and were then purchased by government at a low price . The state was thus relieved of a large portion of its debts , but individuals suffered . It was apprehended ...
... receiving them in payment of taxes . They immediately fell in value , and were then purchased by government at a low price . The state was thus relieved of a large portion of its debts , but individuals suffered . It was apprehended ...
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... received any convert from popery . This was a bitter stroke of oppression , for nothing more was necessary than for a crafty Jesuit to mix himself up with a Protestant congregation , and say that he had been converted to it , in order ...
... received any convert from popery . This was a bitter stroke of oppression , for nothing more was necessary than for a crafty Jesuit to mix himself up with a Protestant congregation , and say that he had been converted to it , in order ...
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Page 68 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Page 40 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 430 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Page 40 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 40 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 159 - There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, Barr'd by the hand of Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. Nought around Strikes his sad eye but deserts lost in snow...
Page 5 - Topt with all titles, spreading all our reaches, As if each private arm would sphere the earth, We must to Virtue for her guide resort, Or we shall shipwreck in our safest port.
Page 100 - In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds, And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin, And putrefy the breath of blooming health. He calls for Famine, and the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips, And taints the golden ear. He springs his mines, And desolates a nation at a blast.
Page 432 - HERE is the spring where waters flow, To quench our heat of sin : Here is the tree where truth doth grow, To lead our lives therein : Here is the Judge that stints the strife, When men's devices fail : Here is the Bread that feeds the life, That death cannot assail.
Page 463 - Egyptian Thebes ; Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves ; Palmyra, central in the desert, fell ; And the arts died by which they had been raised.