Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 679
... fafe- ty , have made the following glorious de- claration in public , though a falfe one ; I have flain , I have flain , not a Sp . Mælius , who was fulpected of aiming at the regal power , because he courted the favour of the people by ...
... fafe- ty , have made the following glorious de- claration in public , though a falfe one ; I have flain , I have flain , not a Sp . Mælius , who was fulpected of aiming at the regal power , because he courted the favour of the people by ...
Page 683
... fafe , may they be glorious , may they be happy ! May this renowned city profper , and my country , which fhall ever be dear to me , in whatfoever manner the fhall please to treat me fince I must not live with my fellow - citizens , let ...
... fafe , may they be glorious , may they be happy ! May this renowned city profper , and my country , which fhall ever be dear to me , in whatfoever manner the fhall please to treat me fince I must not live with my fellow - citizens , let ...
Page 735
... fafe , when the courts of justice were dens of thieves , and when almoft every man in authority , or in office , ufed his power to opprefs and pillage the people . The king himtelf did not only tolerate , but encourage , fupport , and ...
... fafe , when the courts of justice were dens of thieves , and when almoft every man in authority , or in office , ufed his power to opprefs and pillage the people . The king himtelf did not only tolerate , but encourage , fupport , and ...
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