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... hands of millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of ...
... hands of millions , who know no common principle of action , but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . The next personage who figures in the tragedies of this ancient theatre is Semiramis : for we have no particulars of ...
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... hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt ...
... hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was rent and divided ; which served to employ the more distinct parts to tear each other to pieces , and bury the whole in blood and slaughter . The kings of Syria and of Egypt ...
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... hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and ...
... hand , and to the banks of the Loire , or farther , on the other ; destroying all the proud and curious monuments of human art , that not even the memory might seem to survive of the former inhabitants . What has been done since , and ...
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... hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satisfying them . From the earliest dawn- ings of policy to this day , the inventions of ...
... hands ; but only a few , a very few deaths . Society and politics , which have given us these destructive views , have given us also the means of satisfying them . From the earliest dawn- ings of policy to this day , the inventions of ...
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... hands , and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only use he made of this power , was to plunge those who gave it into slavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune ...
... hands , and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite ; and the only use he made of this power , was to plunge those who gave it into slavery . Accident restored their liberty , and the same good fortune ...
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