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... great a crime as high - treason . In the court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestionable merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the ...
... great a crime as high - treason . In the court of Nero , a person of learning , of unquestionable merit , and of unsuspected loyalty , was put to death for no other reason than that he had a pedantic countenance which displeased the ...
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... high treason , only for having dropped a free word concerning the mis- tress of the raja's first valet de chambre ; a third shall take away from the farmer half his harvest , and dispute the remainder with him ; and what is worse than ...
... high treason , only for having dropped a free word concerning the mis- tress of the raja's first valet de chambre ; a third shall take away from the farmer half his harvest , and dispute the remainder with him ; and what is worse than ...
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... highest displeasure of his imperial majesty ) came to my house very privately at ... high - admiral ) hath been your mortal enemy almost ever since your arrival ... treason and other capital crimes . This This preface made me so impatient ...
... highest displeasure of his imperial majesty ) came to my house very privately at ... high - admiral ) hath been your mortal enemy almost ever since your arrival ... treason and other capital crimes . This This preface made me so impatient ...
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... high treason : notwithstanding the said Quimbus Flestrin , in open breach of the said law , under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort , did maliciously , traiterously ...
... high treason : notwithstanding the said Quimbus Flestrin , in open breach of the said law , under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort , did maliciously , traiterously ...
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... great alacrity and readiness have submitted to so easy a punishment . * h SWIFT . Gulliver's Travels , part i . ch . vii . * • ་ ` IN common crimes the laws of England are fa- vourable to the accused ; but in cases of high- treason they ...
... great alacrity and readiness have submitted to so easy a punishment . * h SWIFT . Gulliver's Travels , part i . ch . vii . * • ་ ` IN common crimes the laws of England are fa- vourable to the accused ; but in cases of high- treason they ...
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Page 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Page 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Page 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.