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Page 113
... and called to Ortega , telling him that six of his companions were at the point of
death ; they who had not yet been baptized intreated him to baptize them ; and
those who had received that sacrament , requested absolua tion ere they died .
... and called to Ortega , telling him that six of his companions were at the point of
death ; they who had not yet been baptized intreated him to baptize them ; and
those who had received that sacrament , requested absolua tion ere they died .
Page 123
But these privileges were by no means enough to compensate for the added
ferocity which their manners had acquired , when stimulated by the example and
influence of Europeans , or the inevitable depopula . tion and misery occasioned
by ...
But these privileges were by no means enough to compensate for the added
ferocity which their manners had acquired , when stimulated by the example and
influence of Europeans , or the inevitable depopula . tion and misery occasioned
by ...
Page 145
... examina tion of them : we proceed , therefore , with our travellers to the
mountain and forest of Santa Maria , the splendour and magnificence of the
vegetation of which are described with the glow and enthusiasm of a poet as well
as botanist ...
... examina tion of them : we proceed , therefore , with our travellers to the
mountain and forest of Santa Maria , the splendour and magnificence of the
vegetation of which are described with the glow and enthusiasm of a poet as well
as botanist ...
Page 184
Here therefore , if we only interpose a few rude judicial forms , we have at once
the principle of the appeal and that of the weregild ; and the sole peculiarity in the
Saxon constitution seems to have been that , in process of time , the excep - tion
...
Here therefore , if we only interpose a few rude judicial forms , we have at once
the principle of the appeal and that of the weregild ; and the sole peculiarity in the
Saxon constitution seems to have been that , in process of time , the excep - tion
...
Page 232
... bishop of Landaff , under his own direc , tion . He was born in the month of
August , in the year 1737 , at Heversham , a delightful village in the Bottom of
Westmoreland , the son of Watson , schoolmaster of that place , whom , in his
epitaph ...
... bishop of Landaff , under his own direc , tion . He was born in the month of
August , in the year 1737 , at Heversham , a delightful village in the Bottom of
Westmoreland , the son of Watson , schoolmaster of that place , whom , in his
epitaph ...
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Page 379 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Page 192 - That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer.
Page 378 - His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!— Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
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Page 379 - I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
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Page 327 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
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