The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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... 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 changed ...
... 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 changed ...
Page 8
... 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 peer of the realm . In Ireland , unless the lord have ...
... 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 peer of the realm . In Ireland , unless the lord have ...
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... lives . All he had previously seen of volcanic phenomena , had not prepared him for what he then be- held . He had often witnessed the rivers of lava , after their descent into the valley between Somma and Vesu- vius ; they resembled ...
... lives . All he had previously seen of volcanic phenomena , had not prepared him for what he then be- held . He had often witnessed the rivers of lava , after their descent into the valley between Somma and Vesu- vius ; they resembled ...
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... lives . Then was there formed , since it must be related , a dreadful pyramid of the dead and of the dying streaming with blood ; and it was necessary to drag away the bodies of those who had already expired , in order to finish the ...
... lives . Then was there formed , since it must be related , a dreadful pyramid of the dead and of the dying streaming with blood ; and it was necessary to drag away the bodies of those who had already expired , in order to finish the ...
Page 33
... live in their own houses , they pursue their own avocations , they buy , sell , and serve on their own account , and I believe they may even purchase slaves . It is not , I think , very easy to adjust our ideas of a bondman to the ...
... live in their own houses , they pursue their own avocations , they buy , sell , and serve on their own account , and I believe they may even purchase slaves . It is not , I think , very easy to adjust our ideas of a bondman to the ...
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