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Page 7
... tell a long tale . If you proceed in this way I shall forget the half of my defence . I have no school - tricks , nor art of recol- lection . Unless you hear me while I remember , your second charge will hammer the first out of my head ...
... tell a long tale . If you proceed in this way I shall forget the half of my defence . I have no school - tricks , nor art of recol- lection . Unless you hear me while I remember , your second charge will hammer the first out of my head ...
Page 12
... tell that it had been possessed , during the inglorious period of our dominion , by any thing better than the ouran - out- ang or the tiger . " There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than in the boys whom we are whipping at ...
... tell that it had been possessed , during the inglorious period of our dominion , by any thing better than the ouran - out- ang or the tiger . " There is nothing in the boys we send to India worse than in the boys whom we are whipping at ...
Page 18
... tell . All the horrors of war , before known or heard of , were mercy to that new havock . A storm of universal fire blasted every field , consumed every house , destroyed every temple . The miserable inhabit- ants , flying from their ...
... tell . All the horrors of war , before known or heard of , were mercy to that new havock . A storm of universal fire blasted every field , consumed every house , destroyed every temple . The miserable inhabit- ants , flying from their ...
Page 56
... tell him ) I might be tempted then to right myself . [ Exit . Byr . He has a will to me , and dares not shew it : His state decay'd , and he disgraced , distracts him . Re - enter LAFIN . Laf . Change not my words , my lord . I only ...
... tell him ) I might be tempted then to right myself . [ Exit . Byr . He has a will to me , and dares not shew it : His state decay'd , and he disgraced , distracts him . Re - enter LAFIN . Laf . Change not my words , my lord . I only ...
Page 57
... tell him this too : if to lift the sea Up to the stars , when all the winds are still , And keep it calm when they are most enraged ; To make earth's driest palms sweat humorous springs ; To make fix'd rocks walk , and loose shadows ...
... tell him this too : if to lift the sea Up to the stars , when all the winds are still , And keep it calm when they are most enraged ; To make earth's driest palms sweat humorous springs ; To make fix'd rocks walk , and loose shadows ...
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