The gleaner; or, Entertainment for the fire-side [compiled by J. Watson].1804 |
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... heads ; and we saw our daughter expire in agonies , before our eyes , with the bitter ag- gravation of a double murder , for the child was alive within her . Are there words in language to express our lamentations ? Are there tortures ...
... heads ; and we saw our daughter expire in agonies , before our eyes , with the bitter ag- gravation of a double murder , for the child was alive within her . Are there words in language to express our lamentations ? Are there tortures ...
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... heads appears to have added to their intimacy . In the performance of every duty , which a horse could owe to a mi- litary rider , Pocket was exemplary ; and every attention that a rider could pay to a horse , even to the abridgment of ...
... heads appears to have added to their intimacy . In the performance of every duty , which a horse could owe to a mi- litary rider , Pocket was exemplary ; and every attention that a rider could pay to a horse , even to the abridgment of ...
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... head . He concluded that the chamberlain had got a ring that much re- sembled hers , and went to rest in perfect tranquillity of mind . 66 On the following day he took it into his head to hunt in the forest , and desired the chamberlain ...
... head . He concluded that the chamberlain had got a ring that much re- sembled hers , and went to rest in perfect tranquillity of mind . 66 On the following day he took it into his head to hunt in the forest , and desired the chamberlain ...
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... head , when rising suddenly , he shot one Turk , and knocked down another with the but- end of his pistol , then recollecting that he had another pistol loaded , he dispatched him . In the interval his comrades joined him , and the five ...
... head , when rising suddenly , he shot one Turk , and knocked down another with the but- end of his pistol , then recollecting that he had another pistol loaded , he dispatched him . In the interval his comrades joined him , and the five ...
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... head . Seventeen persons fell a victim to his savage vengeance ; and the Turks represented this barbarous transaction in such strong terms , in a memorial against him , addressed to the Governor Ge- neral of Dalmatia , that he issued a ...
... head . Seventeen persons fell a victim to his savage vengeance ; and the Turks represented this barbarous transaction in such strong terms , in a memorial against him , addressed to the Governor Ge- neral of Dalmatia , that he issued a ...
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