Cartouche, the Celebrated French Robber, Volume 2Hugh Cunningham, 1844 |
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Page 116 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Page 224 - Unchained thee from thy native depth of hell, To stalk the earth with thy destructive train, Murder and lust ! to waste domestic peace, And every heart-felt joy ! Enter OTHMAN.
Page 271 - The lady, in alarm flew to the bell, crying out, ' I am dying ! Dr. Mead says, my pulse gets lower and lower ; so that it is impossible I should live !'
Page 3 - There prevailed a report that he had established a school at Chios in the latter part of his life ; and, indeed, this opinion is...
Page 272 - ... in the India Company. The frenzy extended to all ranks and classes. ' Clergy and laity, peers and plebeians, statesmen, princes, nay, even ladies who had, or could procure money for that purpose, turned stock-jobbers, outbidding each other.
Page 174 - Versailles, it was decided by that body, presided over by the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France during the minority of Louis the...
Page 272 - ... de Villeroi and de Villars, the dukes de St. Simon and de la Rochefoucault, and the chancellor) had kept free from the contagion. The negociations for actions were at first carried on in the Rue Quinquempoix, to the great emolument of the occupiers of houses in that street, apartments letting at the most enormous rates. At length it becoming impossible for all to procure the accommodation of a room...
Page 272 - Mississippi. The courtiers, according to their usual custom of following implicitly the royal example, engaged so deeply in this business, that it was said only five persons of that description (the marechals de Villeroi and de Villars, the dukes de St.
Page 271 - Chirac says that my pulse gets lower and lower; so that it is impossible I should live!" " You are dreaming, madam!" replied the physician, rousing himself from his reverie; " your pulse is very good, and nothing ails you ; it was the stocks I was talking of.
Page 78 - I have been admired by many nations; an almost infinite number of panegyrics in prose and verse have been composed to celebrate my fame. I was born to release the world from the manifold errors under which it groaned. What I have found out, could not be discovered either by my predecessors, or my contemporaries...