The Foundling of Belgrade: A Translation from the French |
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... mystery of his birth and the origin of the persecution which had pursued him for years is an apology , sufficient , for his inquietude on the first VOL . I B discovery of his embarrassment ; but he soon regained the THE ...
... mystery of his birth and the origin of the persecution which had pursued him for years is an apology , sufficient , for his inquietude on the first VOL . I B discovery of his embarrassment ; but he soon regained the THE ...
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... sufficient to rouse the generous feelings of our nature , and to disclose the horror which assailed him at the sudden and unlooked - for attack of the midnight assassin . His life was preserved by an impulse of the mo- ment . Having ...
... sufficient to rouse the generous feelings of our nature , and to disclose the horror which assailed him at the sudden and unlooked - for attack of the midnight assassin . His life was preserved by an impulse of the mo- ment . Having ...
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... sufficient time to ward off the blow aimed at my existence by Diego . The wretch , missing his aim , fled into the common . I called Sebas- tian ; but the coward , or accomplice as I now suspect , had gone before . Forward I ran in ...
... sufficient time to ward off the blow aimed at my existence by Diego . The wretch , missing his aim , fled into the common . I called Sebas- tian ; but the coward , or accomplice as I now suspect , had gone before . Forward I ran in ...
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... sufficient to remove him from > want . He sought independence less for its extrinsick advan- tage , than to have the painful severity of being indebted to another . Educated in the school of adversity , he had been taught to place ...
... sufficient to remove him from > want . He sought independence less for its extrinsick advan- tage , than to have the painful severity of being indebted to another . Educated in the school of adversity , he had been taught to place ...
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... sufficiently the weight of obligation for so singular an instance of affection from a stranger . Unused to kind expressions of friendship , habituated to disappointments , innured to the vicissitudes : of life , and abandoned by the ...
... sufficiently the weight of obligation for so singular an instance of affection from a stranger . Unused to kind expressions of friendship , habituated to disappointments , innured to the vicissitudes : of life , and abandoned by the ...
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abbess acquaintance affected agitation Agnes alarm Andalusia anxious arms art thou assassin began beheld Belgrade blush bosom Caligula cause character charms Clare conceal confession confidence Constantinople continued Alfonso convent of St countenance cried Alfonso curiosity danger daughter Diego discovered disposition doubt duke Aranza exclaimed Bernard fancied father fear feelings fonso fortune Franciscan Francisco friendship gossa hand happy hasten heard heart heaven holy office honor hope human innocence interrupted janissaries knew Kyoprili letter looked madame Madrid Mariana ment Miguel mind monastery monk Morad Morgiana mother Mustapha mystery never niece night object Omar once parent Parouty passion paused Perpignan poignard promised recollection regiment replied resolved rienced Rosalvo Saragossa scene scimitar secret seignior sentiments sigh sister smile soon sought soul spahis spirits stood stranger superior suspicions tender thou tion Turkey twas unhappy Violante Westcote wife wished wound wretch yellow fever
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Page 8 - Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act. entitled, " An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietor? of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 8 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 8 - An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned "and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Page 159 - She loved him for the dangers he had past, And he loved her because she pitied them.
Page 103 - William, and you will discover that reproaches and inquiries have no power to afflict either the man of unblemished integrity, or the abandoned profligate. It is the middle, compound character which alone is vulnerable : the man who, without firmness enough to avoid a dishonorable action, has feeling enough to be ashamed of it. I thank you for the hint of the Decalogue, and shall take an opportunity of applying it to some of your most virtuous friends in both houses of Parliament. You seem to have...
Page 8 - Be il remembered, that on the thirtieth day of May, in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, George E. Blake, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " The Indian Princess; or La Belle Sauvage.