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... mind difeafed , nor pluck from her memory her rooted forrows " -- and that grim fpectre of the thirteenth century behind you , that Perceval of horrid afpect and terrifying mien , makes her fhrink . back dejected , and feed on her ...
... mind difeafed , nor pluck from her memory her rooted forrows " -- and that grim fpectre of the thirteenth century behind you , that Perceval of horrid afpect and terrifying mien , makes her fhrink . back dejected , and feed on her ...
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... mind ftill occupied with finifter prognoftication refpecting my dear little favourite , i found her in the crisis of a virulent fever ! Soon after this , the finali - pox broke out , for which difeafe a phyfician to whom I had fent ...
... mind ftill occupied with finifter prognoftication refpecting my dear little favourite , i found her in the crisis of a virulent fever ! Soon after this , the finali - pox broke out , for which difeafe a phyfician to whom I had fent ...
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... mind and talents well adapted to study . At eight years of age , we are told , he was ac- quainted with Latin ; at eleven he compofed a treatise on rhetoric , and fuftained his thesis in philofophy with great fuccefs . On leaving ...
... mind and talents well adapted to study . At eight years of age , we are told , he was ac- quainted with Latin ; at eleven he compofed a treatise on rhetoric , and fuftained his thesis in philofophy with great fuccefs . On leaving ...
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... mind or indepen- dence in your county Were i to judge of either from an account of proceedings lately published , and confifting of a letter to , and an an- fwer from the M. R. Dr Reilly . I muft eftimate them to be low in the extreme ...
... mind or indepen- dence in your county Were i to judge of either from an account of proceedings lately published , and confifting of a letter to , and an an- fwer from the M. R. Dr Reilly . I muft eftimate them to be low in the extreme ...
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... mind became a prey to thofe blind fancies which fometimes em bitter the early marriage ftate ; particularly whenever a difparity of acquirements exifts on either . fide , and the hufband and wife do not alike poffefs the advantages of ...
... mind became a prey to thofe blind fancies which fometimes em bitter the early marriage ftate ; particularly whenever a difparity of acquirements exifts on either . fide , and the hufband and wife do not alike poffefs the advantages of ...
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Page 66 - Major Sandys. Here he was flung into a room of about thirteen feet by twelve — it was called the hospital of the provost. It was occupied by six beds, in which were to lie fourteen or fifteen miserable wretches, some of them sinking under contagious diseases.
Page 221 - I speak not now of the public proclamation of informers, with a promise of secrecy and of extravagant reward ; I speak not of the fate of those horrid wretches who have been so often transferred from the table to the dock, and from the dock to the pillory; I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day...
Page 222 - ... horror? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of...
Page 218 - ... authority. Perhaps, gentlemen, he may know you better than I do. If he does, he has spoken to you as he ought ; he has been right in telling you, that if the reprobation of this writer is weak, it is because his genius could not make it stronger ; he has been right in telling you that his language has not been braided and festooned...
Page 207 - The former may be called personal, and the latter political publications. No two things can be more different in their nature, nor in the point of view in which they are to be looked on by a jury. The criminality of a mere personal libel consists in this, that it tends to a breach of the peace ; it tends to all the vindictive paroxysms of exasperated vanity, or to the deeper and more deadly vengeance of irritated pride.
Page 222 - ... death, and the supreme arbiter of both? Have you not marked, when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach ? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power in the undissembled homage of deferential horror?
Page 217 - ... prostrate themselves before the humanity of the bench, and pray that the mercy of the crown might save their characters from the reproach of an involuntary crime, their consciences from the torture of eternal self-condemnation, and their souls from the indelible stain of innocent blood. Let me suppose that you had seen the respite given...
Page 217 - ... that through the slow and lingering progress of twelve tedious months you had seen him confined in a dungeon, shut out from the common use of air and of his own limbs; that day after day you had marked the unhappy captive, cheered by no sound but the cries of his family, or the clinking of chains; that you had seen him...