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... turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity , embodied in a human form , walking among men , partaking of their infirmities , leaning on their bosoms , weeping over their graves , s.um ...
... turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity , embodied in a human form , walking among men , partaking of their infirmities , leaning on their bosoms , weeping over their graves , s.um ...
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... turned nicious effect on the public mind . him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by imperious messages , who pursued him with fire and sword from one part of the empire to another , who hanged , drew , and quartered his ...
... turned nicious effect on the public mind . him out of it , who broke in upon his very slumbers by imperious messages , who pursued him with fire and sword from one part of the empire to another , who hanged , drew , and quartered his ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. fought their perilous battle ; but he turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph . He saw that they , like those whom they had vanquished , were hostile to the liberty of thought . He ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. fought their perilous battle ; but he turned away with disdain from their insolent triumph . He saw that they , like those whom they had vanquished , were hostile to the liberty of thought . He ...
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... turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , Thus liberty , partially , indeed , and transient- still retaining the traces of old cultivation , but ly , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came com- yielding neither ...
... turned into arid wastes , still marked out by formal boundaries , Thus liberty , partially , indeed , and transient- still retaining the traces of old cultivation , but ly , revisited Italy ; and with liberty came com- yielding neither ...
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... turned the iron leaves of its dark book To make new dooms , or mend what it mistook . " How exquisite is the imagery of the fairy- songs in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream ; Ariel riding through the twi- light on the bat ...
... turned the iron leaves of its dark book To make new dooms , or mend what it mistook . " How exquisite is the imagery of the fairy- songs in the Tempest and the Midsummer Night's Dream ; Ariel riding through the twi- light on the bat ...
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