The London Quarterly Review, Volume 15Theodore Foster, 1817 |
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... death would have been better than the long - sufferings to which they were reserved ; but those sufferings were the means of calling forth virtues which might else never have been unfolded , and those virtues have their reward here and ...
... death would have been better than the long - sufferings to which they were reserved ; but those sufferings were the means of calling forth virtues which might else never have been unfolded , and those virtues have their reward here and ...
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... death ; -from man they requested no other favours than that a little earth might be thrown over their remains , to preserve them from the wolves and dogs . Je me gar- derai bien , says M. Bourniseaux , de tracer le tableau des horreurs ...
... death ; -from man they requested no other favours than that a little earth might be thrown over their remains , to preserve them from the wolves and dogs . Je me gar- derai bien , says M. Bourniseaux , de tracer le tableau des horreurs ...
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... death . She was in child - bed when the insurgents called upon her husband to come forward in the cause of their God and their king . D'Elbée would not , of his own choice , have taken this perilous post , for he was unmolested and ...
... death . She was in child - bed when the insurgents called upon her husband to come forward in the cause of their God and their king . D'Elbée would not , of his own choice , have taken this perilous post , for he was unmolested and ...
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... death unless he consented to be their leader . Well , said he , you force me to it , I will lead you on ; but remember that you obey me , or I will punish you severely . An oath of obedience was voluntarily taken ; and the chief and the ...
... death unless he consented to be their leader . Well , said he , you force me to it , I will lead you on ; but remember that you obey me , or I will punish you severely . An oath of obedience was voluntarily taken ; and the chief and the ...
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... death . Charette made answer that he was not the com- mander of the town , and had no orders upon the subject to give ; and immediately left the town . The biographer has perhaps succeeded in showing that Charette did not command the ...
... death . Charette made answer that he was not the com- mander of the town , and had no orders upon the subject to give ; and immediately left the town . The biographer has perhaps succeeded in showing that Charette did not command the ...
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