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... crimes , they are absolute drugs in the literary market . Young France re- quires something infinitely more piquant ... crime in question : you must dilate on the clotted blood , rejoice over the scattered brains , par- ticularise the ...
... crimes , they are absolute drugs in the literary market . Young France re- quires something infinitely more piquant ... crime in question : you must dilate on the clotted blood , rejoice over the scattered brains , par- ticularise the ...
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... the purpose of my visit , received instantly from him an answer . M. Guizot said , " Tell those who sent you that France committed a political crime against Spain in 1823 ; that she owes 112 " THE CONSTITUTIONAL , " ( 1836. )
... the purpose of my visit , received instantly from him an answer . M. Guizot said , " Tell those who sent you that France committed a political crime against Spain in 1823 ; that she owes 112 " THE CONSTITUTIONAL , " ( 1836. )
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William Makepeace Thackeray, Sebastian Evans Walter Thomas Spencer. political crime against Spain in 1823 ; that she owes her a complete and public reparation , and that this reparation shall be made . The Society " Aide toi " formed ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, Sebastian Evans Walter Thomas Spencer. political crime against Spain in 1823 ; that she owes her a complete and public reparation , and that this reparation shall be made . The Society " Aide toi " formed ...
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... crime of Louis Buonarparte less great than the crime of Louis Alibaud ? Heaven forbid that I should excuse the one , but why not punish the other ? The poor , hungry , insane Republican , there was no talk of mercy for him , the law ...
... crime of Louis Buonarparte less great than the crime of Louis Alibaud ? Heaven forbid that I should excuse the one , but why not punish the other ? The poor , hungry , insane Republican , there was no talk of mercy for him , the law ...
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... crimes and follies of his family , if experience can make any man wise it surely ought not to be lost upon him ; he has seen , in the fate of the man whose throne he occupies , how useless it is to endeavour to overcome freedom , and ...
... crimes and follies of his family , if experience can make any man wise it surely ought not to be lost upon him ; he has seen , in the fate of the man whose throne he occupies , how useless it is to endeavour to overcome freedom , and ...
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Page 61 - ONCE upon a time there was an old woman who lived in a village not very far off, and who went to market to buy a sack of beans. Now, she had to walk back ten miles over a dreary common ; a long step at most times, but a terrible pull when one has a sack of beans on one's back. It was night before she got...
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Page 287 - In the first place, a delay of some months consequent upon the postponement of the newspaper stamp reduction, operated on the minds of many who were originally parties to the enterprise ; in the next, the majority of those who remained faithful were wholly inexperienced in the art and...
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Page 2 - Mark well the form, 0 reader ! nor deride The sacred symbol — Jew's harp glorified — Which, circled with a blooming wreath, is seen Of verdant bays; and thus are typified The pleasant music, and the baize of green, Whence issues out at eve Braham with front serene.
Page 63 - So the little fellow gave her his arm ; and there they went across the common, talking about beans, and the weather, and what not, as if they had been two angels. He saw her almost home ; and you may be sure that when she got there she fell down on her knees and said her prayers ; as well she might, after getting off so well. ' While she was in the middle of her prayers, in comes her husband ; and as soon as she'd done, he asked for a bit of bacon and some of the beans ; so she cut a large piece,...
Page 287 - Constitutional), the feelings of the gentleman who once walked at his own funeral," and the editor, or perhaps his late Paris Correspondent adds, " The adverse circumstances have been various. In the philosophy of ill-luck it may be laid down as a principle that every point of discouragement tends to one common centre of defeat. When the fates do concur in one discomfiture their unanimity is wonderful. So has it happened in the case of the Constitutional. In the first place, a delay of some months...
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