 | Plutarch - Classical biography - 1803 - 454 pages
...Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried...capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operations she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions; such as were milder •were... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 352 pages
...collection of poisonous drugs, and wishing to ascertain which was the least painful, she tried them upon the capital convicts. Such poisons, as were quick...attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder, were slow in their effect : she therefore undertook the examination of venomous creatures,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - Europe - 1819 - 268 pages
...that ransomfrom the chain. Cleopatra made a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried...attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder were slow in their effect : she therefore applied herself to the examination of venomous creatures;... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 524 pages
...collection of poisonous drugs, and wishing to ascertain which was the least painful, she tried them upon the capital convicts. Such poisons, as were quick...attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder, were slow in their effect : she therefore undertook the examination of venomous creatures*... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1822 - 534 pages
...Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried...capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operations, she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder were slow... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 392 pages
...which was the least painful, she tried them upon the capital convicts. Such poisons, as were quic km their operation, she found to be attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder, were slow ia their effect : she therefore undertook the examination of venomous creatures,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1823 - 434 pages
...Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried...attended with violent pain and convulsions ; such as were milder, were slow in their effect: she, therefore, applied herself to the examination of venomous creatures,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 400 pages
...that ransomfrom the chain. Cleopatra made a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried...and convulsions ; such as were mildest were slow in then- effect : she therefore applied herself to the examination of venomous creatures ; at length she... | |
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Cleopatra, at the same time, was making a collection of poisonous drugs, and being desirous to know which was least painful in the operation, she tried them on the capital convicts. Such poisons as were quick in their operation she found to be attended... 
