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... turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini , as tawdry , and as paltry as the rags of a chimney - sweeper on May - day . Whatever ornaments she wears are of massive gold , not only dazzling to the sight , but capable of standing the ...
... turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini , as tawdry , and as paltry as the rags of a chimney - sweeper on May - day . Whatever ornaments she wears are of massive gold , not only dazzling to the sight , but capable of standing the ...
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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 of Northern Italy . 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 ...
... turned into arid of Northern Italy . 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 ...
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... turned states into gangs of robbers , whom their mutual fidelity has ren- dered more dangerous , has given a character of peculiar atrocity to war , and has generated that worst of all political evils , the tyranny of nations over ...
... turned states into gangs of robbers , whom their mutual fidelity has ren- dered more dangerous , has given a character of peculiar atrocity to war , and has generated that worst of all political evils , the tyranny of nations over ...
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