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Page 116
... scene of wo , the like of which no eye had seen , no heart conceived , and which no tongue can adequately tell . All the horrors of war before known or heard of , were mercy to that new havoc . A storm of universal fire blasted every ...
... scene of wo , the like of which no eye had seen , no heart conceived , and which no tongue can adequately tell . All the horrors of war before known or heard of , were mercy to that new havoc . A storm of universal fire blasted every ...
Page 117
... scene of waste and desolation ; what would be your thoughts if you should be informed , that they were com- puting how much had been the amount of the excises , how much 1 the customs , how much the land and malt tax RHETORIC . 117.
... scene of waste and desolation ; what would be your thoughts if you should be informed , that they were com- puting how much had been the amount of the excises , how much 1 the customs , how much the land and malt tax RHETORIC . 117.
Page 120
... scenes that will open . It is no great effort of the imagina- tion to conceive , that events so near are already begun . I fancy fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance , and the shrieks of torture . Already they seem to ...
... scenes that will open . It is no great effort of the imagina- tion to conceive , that events so near are already begun . I fancy fancy that I listen to the yells of savage vengeance , and the shrieks of torture . Already they seem to ...
Page 145
Here ended the interrogatories ; the judges retire , and the scene changes once more . Instead of leading the prince back to his dungeon , he is established in the council - chamber , the only lodgeable room in the prison , which is ...
Here ended the interrogatories ; the judges retire , and the scene changes once more . Instead of leading the prince back to his dungeon , he is established in the council - chamber , the only lodgeable room in the prison , which is ...
Page 164
... scene was observed by a young sophomore , who conceal- ed himself in a neighbouring thicket - hedge , and afterwards excited much laughter against the amorous swain engaged in it . But he confessed the joke by a quotation from Terence ...
... scene was observed by a young sophomore , who conceal- ed himself in a neighbouring thicket - hedge , and afterwards excited much laughter against the amorous swain engaged in it . But he confessed the joke by a quotation from Terence ...
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