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On the 10th March, the day preceding the fatal night
Our forefathers still live among us in the records .

PASSING political events are matters of importance
Patriotism is, perhaps, not properly to be considered
Penal laws, it must be allowed, secure property
Perhaps there is no more impressive scene
Perhaps there never was a time when augury
Poetry, as distinguished from other modes
Poetry, I take it, is as universally contagious
Polybius. You will listen to me if I adduce

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Sir Clement tells me you will shortly come to town
Sir, I am perfectly sensible of the very flattering
Slowly and stealthily the Indians advanced . .
So great is the uncertainty of posthumous reputation
So great was the disparity of numbers

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Soldiers! I partake of your chagrin, your grief

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Sometimes the quarrel between two princes.

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Stephen would have been regarded by all men.

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Such a difference of behaviour in their two greatest leaders

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The culprit was indeed not unworthy

The death of Nelson was felt in England

The democracy of Athens may be regarded
The Druids were eminent above all.

The Duke of Alva was inferior to no general of his age.

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The mode of attack which Archidamus chiefly relied

The monarch took part in the procession.

The Moors, unshaken by the fury of this assault

The mystery of holy shrines lies deep

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The name of Shakespeare is the greatest
The Pallas Athene, like other Olympians

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The peace of Constance presented a noble opportunity
The perfect historian is he in whose work

The place was worthy of such a trial

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The practical use of philosophy, according to Lucretius
The present town of Carthagena

The prospect which this mansion embraced .
The protection of the Republic has delivered Gaul
There had been an invasion of an enemy's soil.
There had been nothing like it before in history
There is a sort of delight, which is alternately.
There is, however, one man, who distinctly
There is nothing in the boys we send to India
There is nothing more memorable in history
There is something patriarchal still lingering
The republican statesman of ancient Rome
There stood the burgomaster.

There was a panic. The whole royal cavalry wavered
There was a silence both in the city and in the field
There were in these quarters of the world
There were of the Genoese cross-bows.

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The rise of a city which swelled into an empire

The road from hence is remarkably picturesque

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The Spaniard was of a large and powerful frame

The squadron of Tancred was completely hid from view
The subjects of Xerxes conducted themselves

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The wisest and greatest of men, both amongst the ancients
They manage more artistically in Paris

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This, however, is the very thing which the multitude
"This," said a philosopher who had heard him
This shore of the lake is one continued village.

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This style, which is what we understand.

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To such opinions Mr. Canning alluded.

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This war,
This was Mondragon's last feat of arms

Those who have watched from some lofty point
Though her own security had been her first object
Though no tempest had been felt
Though the lower animals have feeling
Time mellows ideas as it mellows wine

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To be a great orator does not require the highest

To such language as this the Tribunes

To that grand array of aristocratic gravity
To the English it was a night of hope and fear
To those who have duly estimated the considerations.
To trace the wild and irregular grandeur of his career
Trust me, this unwary pleasantry of thine
Two centuries ago the people of this country

UNLEARNED in books, he formed his understanding
Upon the death of Louis XIV.

Upon the question of peace or war.

WALLENSTEIN had been roused from his first sleep.

We amused ouselves next day, every one to his fancy

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YE pretend to a commonwealth. How amend ye it

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