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... hands , lives and lands , must all be at your beck . Who fawns not to you can- not live within your scent , and your scent is so keen that you track them out at pleasure . " While the cardinal was thus speaking , the earl frequently ...
... hands , lives and lands , must all be at your beck . Who fawns not to you can- not live within your scent , and your scent is so keen that you track them out at pleasure . " While the cardinal was thus speaking , the earl frequently ...
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... hands , of which you speak , we should soon lose both lives and lands . You hear of our case as in a dream , and feel not the smart of suffering that we endure . In England , there is not a subject that dare extend his arm to fillip a ...
... hands , of which you speak , we should soon lose both lives and lands . You hear of our case as in a dream , and feel not the smart of suffering that we endure . In England , there is not a subject that dare extend his arm to fillip a ...
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... hand , restored them to the people . With many disorders , and with few political checks upon power , nature had still fair play ; the sources of acquisition were not dried up ; and therefore the trade , the manufactures , and the ...
... hand , restored them to the people . With many disorders , and with few political checks upon power , nature had still fair play ; the sources of acquisition were not dried up ; and therefore the trade , the manufactures , and the ...
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... hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom , or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal , or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his sions and his oppressor . They marry into your ...
... hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom , or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal , or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his sions and his oppressor . They marry into your ...
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... hands for food . For months together these creatures of sufferance , whose very excess and luxury , in their most plenteous days , had fallen short of the allowance of our austerest fasts , silent , patient , resigned , without sedition ...
... hands for food . For months together these creatures of sufferance , whose very excess and luxury , in their most plenteous days , had fallen short of the allowance of our austerest fasts , silent , patient , resigned , without sedition ...
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ancient appear Bachelor beauty Benedict breath caboceer called cataract Catiline CHAP character church Demonax Devil Don Quixote Dr Johnson dreadful Duke of Burgundy earth EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE effect English equal eyes fall FAUST feel fire friends genius Gil Blas give gold Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honour human Hyder Ali imagination Ioannina Jaffa king less live look Lord magnificent manner MARGARET ment Mephistopheles merits mind morning nature never night o'er object observed Odoacer opinion ornaments palaces passages peculiar perhaps persons pleasure poet poetical poetry possess principles racter replied the Nymph respect Roman round scarcely scene sentiments Shirley Sibylline books side song Sotheby's soul spirit steam stood style sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth Warburton whole