The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the Late Thomas Creevey, M. P., Born 1768--died 1838, Volume 1J. Murray, 1904 - Great Britain |
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Page 128 - A single jail, in Alfred's golden reign, Could half the nation's criminals contain ; Fair Justice then, without constraint ador'd, Held high the steady scale, but sheath'd the sword ; No spies were paid, no special juries known ; Blest age ! but ah ! how different from our own...
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Page 220 - By God ! I think Blucher and myself can do the thing.' — ' Do you calculate,' I asked, ' upon any desertion in Buonaparte's army?' — 'Not upon a man,' he said, ' from the colonel to the private in a regiment — both inclusive. We may pick up a marshal or two, perhaps ; but not worth a damn.
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