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... taken pri- soner , and sold as a slave on the Coast of Guinea . One of our countrymen , who sits among my judges , purchased me . Having been cruelly treated by his overseer , I deserted , and went to join the rebels in the woods ...
... taken pri- soner , and sold as a slave on the Coast of Guinea . One of our countrymen , who sits among my judges , purchased me . Having been cruelly treated by his overseer , I deserted , and went to join the rebels in the woods ...
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... taken , but the little children , whose age would not permit them to bear arms , still lingered about the ranks of their fathers , and sought by any little offices to render themselves useful in the common cause . One of these , a son ...
... taken , but the little children , whose age would not permit them to bear arms , still lingered about the ranks of their fathers , and sought by any little offices to render themselves useful in the common cause . One of these , a son ...
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... taken his me- thod of opening inclosures . But they had no wings . The lock too being on the inside , they could not force the door ; what could they do ? They hit on a stratagem , which might have done honor to Polyænus . By joint ...
... taken his me- thod of opening inclosures . But they had no wings . The lock too being on the inside , they could not force the door ; what could they do ? They hit on a stratagem , which might have done honor to Polyænus . By joint ...
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... taken captive , with his princess , by Cyrus , and was asked what he would give to be restored to his kingdom and liberty , he re- plied , " As for my kingdom and liberty , I value them not ; but if my blood would redeem my princess , I ...
... taken captive , with his princess , by Cyrus , and was asked what he would give to be restored to his kingdom and liberty , he re- plied , " As for my kingdom and liberty , I value them not ; but if my blood would redeem my princess , I ...
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... taken prisoners ; and I will deliver up to him the city of Damietta for my own person . And such were the terms on which the liberation of the King of France and his subjects was after- wards effected . JOHN , KING OF FRANCE . " This ...
... taken prisoners ; and I will deliver up to him the city of Damietta for my own person . And such were the terms on which the liberation of the King of France and his subjects was after- wards effected . JOHN , KING OF FRANCE . " This ...
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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.