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... king . How wide and heart - rending was the cry of anguish heard from every dwelling where " a son is born . " It was like the " voice in Ra- mah , " " Rachel weeping for her children , and would not be comforted because they were not ...
... king . How wide and heart - rending was the cry of anguish heard from every dwelling where " a son is born . " It was like the " voice in Ra- mah , " " Rachel weeping for her children , and would not be comforted because they were not ...
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... king or nobles , has been checked and over - ruled by the spirit of civil freedom in her people , her course has been onward . What was she before her Magna Charta was granted and signed as her first great step of disenthralment from ...
... king or nobles , has been checked and over - ruled by the spirit of civil freedom in her people , her course has been onward . What was she before her Magna Charta was granted and signed as her first great step of disenthralment from ...
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... King of Babylon , ought we not to fear lest our doom should also be found written in the tragical end of his kingdom ? Pride intoxicates while it also corrupts , making those an easy prey who might otherwise be invincible . It ruled the ...
... King of Babylon , ought we not to fear lest our doom should also be found written in the tragical end of his kingdom ? Pride intoxicates while it also corrupts , making those an easy prey who might otherwise be invincible . It ruled the ...
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... kings who were rather monsters than men , and who sported with the lives and happiness of their sub- jects in the very wantonness of cruelty and injustice . Now from what quarter , or by what power was this sore evil which lay upon the ...
... kings who were rather monsters than men , and who sported with the lives and happiness of their sub- jects in the very wantonness of cruelty and injustice . Now from what quarter , or by what power was this sore evil which lay upon the ...
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... king over them ; the crown , during the first and better ages of the monarchy , seems not to have been worn till the man was made king by the voice of the people , or of their representatives acting in their names . From these and other ...
... king over them ; the crown , during the first and better ages of the monarchy , seems not to have been worn till the man was made king by the voice of the people , or of their representatives acting in their names . From these and other ...
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