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" Basel before four, from which place I had a letter from them, highly pleased with their escape from France, into which they had entered with an enthusiasm of patriotic devotion. Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun,... "
Letters from France, in 1802 - Page 356
by Henry Redhead Yorke - 1804
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The Life of Thomas Paine: Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of ...

Thomas Clio Rickman - Political scientists - 1819 - 354 pages
...Ah France ! thou hast ruined the character of a revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant,...window of the bedroom I saw the landlord going with the candle to the * The second instance of attempted suicide is omitted from motives of personal delicacy....
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Miscellaneous Letters & Essays: On Various Subjects

Thomas Paine - American essays - 1819 - 276 pages
...Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant, ' and I only am escaped.' * The second instance of attempted suicide is omitted from motives of personal delicacy. Mr. Paine's...
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Dissertation on the first principles of government

Thomas Paine - Political science - 1819 - 758 pages
...Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant, ' and I only am escaped.' * The second instance of attempted suicide is omitted from motives of personal delicacy. Mr. Paine's...
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The Museum of Remarkable and Interesting Events: Containing Historical and ...

Adventure and adventurers - 1844 - 632 pages
...every evening into the city, to bring us the news of -the day, and the evening journal. Two days after, I heard a rapping at the gate ; and looking out of...to bed again, and made up my mind for prison ; for 1 was then the only lodger. It was a guard to take up , but, I thank God, they were out of their reach....
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The Theological Works

Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1859 - 618 pages
...Ah, France ! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant,...rapping at the gate, and looking out of the window of tbe bed room, I saw the landlord going with the candle to the gate, which he opened, and a guard with...
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Paine's Complete Works, Volume 3

Thomas Paine - Political science - 1878 - 606 pages
...Ah, France ! thon hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant,...after they were gone I heard a rapping at the gate, • The second instance of attempted suicide is omitted from motives of personal delicacy. Mr. Paine's...
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The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 3

Thomas Paine - Political science - 1895 - 464 pages
...Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant,...at the gate, and looking out of the window of the bed room I saw the landlord going with the candle to the gate, which he opened, and a guard with musquets...
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France in Eighteen Hundred and Two: Described in a Series of Contemporary ...

Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1906 - 376 pages
...a post-chaise to Basle, which place they reached in safety. The very morning after their departure I heard a rapping at the gate, and looking out of the window I beheld entering the courtyard a guard with muskets and fixed bayonets. It was a guard to take up...
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France in Eighteen Hundred and Two: Described in a Series of Contemporary ...

Henry Redhead Yorke - France - 1906 - 394 pages
...a post-chaise to Basle, which place they reached in safety. The very morning after their departure I heard a rapping at the gate, and looking out of the window I beheld entering the courtyard a guard with muskets and fixed bayonets. It was a guard to take up...
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography, Volume 9

Thomas Paine - 1908 - 390 pages
...Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant,...at the gate, and looking out of the window of the bed room I saw the landlord going with the candle to the gate, which he opened, and a guard with muskets...
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