Historical View of the French Revolution: From Its Earliest Indications to the Flight of the King in 1791H. G. Bohn, 1864 - 621 pages |
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... suffering ; next , for consolation , hell ! —Damned beforehand ! —Then , wherefore those comedies of Judgment represented in the church - porches ! Is it not barbarous to keep in uncertainty , in dreadful anxiety , ever suspended over ...
... suffering ; next , for consolation , hell ! —Damned beforehand ! —Then , wherefore those comedies of Judgment represented in the church - porches ! Is it not barbarous to keep in uncertainty , in dreadful anxiety , ever suspended over ...
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... suffering , to rende it poignant , intense ; that she found out exquisite arts of tor ture , ingenious means to contrive that , without dying , one migh long taste of death - and that , being stopped in that path by inflexible nature ...
... suffering , to rende it poignant , intense ; that she found out exquisite arts of tor ture , ingenious means to contrive that , without dying , one migh long taste of death - and that , being stopped in that path by inflexible nature ...
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... suffering and ridiculous , under that sad disguise ! Sublime geniuses , privileged to bear the sacred gift of God , have you then accepted , on our account , that degraded martyrdom to be the buffoons of fear ? Degraded - Oh ! no ...
... suffering and ridiculous , under that sad disguise ! Sublime geniuses , privileged to bear the sacred gift of God , have you then accepted , on our account , that degraded martyrdom to be the buffoons of fear ? Degraded - Oh ! no ...
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... suffered so many local tyrannies , that , from the most remote quarters , they invoked the distant God , the God of the monarchy . No evil is imputed to him : if his people suffer any , it is because he is too high or too distant.- " If ...
... suffered so many local tyrannies , that , from the most remote quarters , they invoked the distant God , the God of the monarchy . No evil is imputed to him : if his people suffer any , it is because he is too high or too distant.- " If ...
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... suffer sometimes . ' 199 Patience ! Virtue ! Resignation ! Can any one help being affected , on meeting with such traces of the goodness of our fathers ? Who will enable me to go through the history of their long sufferings , their ...
... suffer sometimes . ' 199 Patience ! Virtue ! Resignation ! Can any one help being affected , on meeting with such traces of the goodness of our fathers ? Who will enable me to go through the history of their long sufferings , their ...
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