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... poor Macedonian soldier was one day lead- ing before Alexander a mule laden with gold for the king's use ; the beast being so tired that he was not able either to go or sustain the load , the mule - driver took it off , and carried it ...
... poor Macedonian soldier was one day lead- ing before Alexander a mule laden with gold for the king's use ; the beast being so tired that he was not able either to go or sustain the load , the mule - driver took it off , and carried it ...
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... poor orphan I found at my door ; and though I have done all I could to engage some persons , more opulent than myself , to provide for him , all my endeavors have proved in vain ; I have there- fore shared my small portion with him ...
... poor orphan I found at my door ; and though I have done all I could to engage some persons , more opulent than myself , to provide for him , all my endeavors have proved in vain ; I have there- fore shared my small portion with him ...
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... poor woman , after a thousand thanks to her generous benefactor , hastened to the steward , who imme . diately presented her with fifty crowns . This she refused to accept ; and the steward , unable to prevail on her to take it , agreed ...
... poor woman , after a thousand thanks to her generous benefactor , hastened to the steward , who imme . diately presented her with fifty crowns . This she refused to accept ; and the steward , unable to prevail on her to take it , agreed ...
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... poor boy , who did not know who the prince was , and who supplicated that he would give him a birth in his ship , to save him from starving . The prince being pleased with the countenance of the supplicant , told him to go on board the ...
... poor boy , who did not know who the prince was , and who supplicated that he would give him a birth in his ship , to save him from starving . The prince being pleased with the countenance of the supplicant , told him to go on board the ...
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... poor miserable wretches at your hospital of the Hôtel Dieu . " My lord , " re- plied M. Boudon with great dignity , " every one of those miserable wretches , as your eminence is pleased to call them , is a prime minister in my eyes ...
... poor miserable wretches at your hospital of the Hôtel Dieu . " My lord , " re- plied M. Boudon with great dignity , " every one of those miserable wretches , as your eminence is pleased to call them , is a prime minister in my eyes ...
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Page 5 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 261 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion.
Page 263 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 20 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 5 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Page 20 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 18 - I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation and condition of life.
Page 20 - ... injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Page 27 - I then spoke to several other dealers, but they all sung the same song, three and six-pence, three and sixpence. This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right ; and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Page 176 - I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.