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... LAWYERS , PENAL LAWS , - - LAWS OF INSOLVENCY , . STATE TRIALS , - -
PLOTS , INFORMERS , AND SPIES , OATHS , ROYALTY , COURTS ,
COURTIERS , 121 139 150 154 167 179 186 215 236 254 257 275 291
MINISTERS , .
... LAWYERS , PENAL LAWS , - - LAWS OF INSOLVENCY , . STATE TRIALS , - -
PLOTS , INFORMERS , AND SPIES , OATHS , ROYALTY , COURTS ,
COURTIERS , 121 139 150 154 167 179 186 215 236 254 257 275 291
MINISTERS , .
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... to the unhappy Tarquin ignorant how to subsist without a kingdom ; to the heir
of a race of kings become the sport of all who are brutal enough to exult in his
misery , wandering from court to court in search of relief , and meeting on every
side ...
... to the unhappy Tarquin ignorant how to subsist without a kingdom ; to the heir
of a race of kings become the sport of all who are brutal enough to exult in his
misery , wandering from court to court in search of relief , and meeting on every
side ...
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Within the hollow crown , That rounds the mortal temples of a king , Keeps Death
his court ; and there the antic sits , Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp ;
Allowing him a breath , a little scene To monarchise , be fear ' d and kill ' d with ...
Within the hollow crown , That rounds the mortal temples of a king , Keeps Death
his court ; and there the antic sits , Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp ;
Allowing him a breath , a little scene To monarchise , be fear ' d and kill ' d with ...
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... nature herself shall change — no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle , or
chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron w ith thee to smile upon him as he eats his
crust , the swain is happier than his monarch , from whose court thou art exiled .
... nature herself shall change — no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle , or
chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron w ith thee to smile upon him as he eats his
crust , the swain is happier than his monarch , from whose court thou art exiled .
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In the court cf 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 emperor . This very monster of
mankind ...
In the court cf 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 emperor . This very monster of
mankind ...
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Página 29 - 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,
Página 312 - 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.
Página 273 - 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.
Página 401 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 35 - 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?
Página 285 - 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.
Página 33 - 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?
Página 291 - 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.
Página 330 - 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.
Página 230 - 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.
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| Título | The Manual of Liberty: Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically Arranged |
| Editora | H. D. Symonds, 1795 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalizado | 21 set. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 406 páginas |
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