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... never was so completely overpowered in my life as upon the present occa- Xsion . I have made a bow to you as gracefully as I could , endeavoring to acknowledge the compliment you have paid me , but that was with the front of my head ...
... never was so completely overpowered in my life as upon the present occa- Xsion . I have made a bow to you as gracefully as I could , endeavoring to acknowledge the compliment you have paid me , but that was with the front of my head ...
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... never be subject to it , that when one man gets power over another man , he will never part with his grasp but with his life . The most terrible thing in the world is to give one man power over another man 30 TREASURY OF ELOQUENCE .
... never be subject to it , that when one man gets power over another man , he will never part with his grasp but with his life . The most terrible thing in the world is to give one man power over another man 30 TREASURY OF ELOQUENCE .
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... never flinched , and such courage and in- trepidity as were exhibited by the priests and the people of Ireland during several centuries cannot be produced from any other portion of history . For five centuries , Catholics and ...
... never flinched , and such courage and in- trepidity as were exhibited by the priests and the people of Ireland during several centuries cannot be produced from any other portion of history . For five centuries , Catholics and ...
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... never died anywhere yet . " ] you I do not like to tell you what was done by his army in Drogheda and Wexford . The young men had their brains beaten out against the wall , and the babes were hurled into the air and caught upon their ...
... never died anywhere yet . " ] you I do not like to tell you what was done by his army in Drogheda and Wexford . The young men had their brains beaten out against the wall , and the babes were hurled into the air and caught upon their ...
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... never clothe my children in perjury ; I will never fatten my wife by hypocrisy ; I will never clothe my children with the wages of perjury , and no man might give me to drink though presented in a cup of gold . It shall never touch my ...
... never clothe my children in perjury ; I will never fatten my wife by hypocrisy ; I will never clothe my children with the wages of perjury , and no man might give me to drink though presented in a cup of gold . It shall never touch my ...
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