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George Huddesford. Le plus saint devoir de l'homme est L'INSURRECTION . This shews how perfectly the Rump And Commonwealth together jump ; La Fayette . For as a fly that goes to bed Rests with his tail above his head : So , in this ...
George Huddesford. Le plus saint devoir de l'homme est L'INSURRECTION . This shews how perfectly the Rump And Commonwealth together jump ; La Fayette . For as a fly that goes to bed Rests with his tail above his head : So , in this ...
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... Le Véritable Portrait , & c . p . 2 . LA FAYETTE . La Fayette is tall , thin , and well proportioned , with light hair , inclining to red ; his eyes , wandering and gloomy , have a sinister character , while his mouth , artificially ...
... Le Véritable Portrait , & c . p . 2 . LA FAYETTE . La Fayette is tall , thin , and well proportioned , with light hair , inclining to red ; his eyes , wandering and gloomy , have a sinister character , while his mouth , artificially ...
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... Le Véritable Portrait . BAILLY . It is astonishing that we should have scarcely any thing to say of a man , who , in the next degree to La Fayette , has shared all the honours of the Revolution , and who was indebted to chance alone for ...
... Le Véritable Portrait . BAILLY . It is astonishing that we should have scarcely any thing to say of a man , who , in the next degree to La Fayette , has shared all the honours of the Revolution , and who was indebted to chance alone for ...
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... La Fayette . This honourable exploit of the great Mirabeau is detailed in the note at the bottom of page 17 , as follows : La Fayette , not content with having enlisted in his pay an army of spies and mercenaries , to applaud him ...
... La Fayette . This honourable exploit of the great Mirabeau is detailed in the note at the bottom of page 17 , as follows : La Fayette , not content with having enlisted in his pay an army of spies and mercenaries , to applaud him ...
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... Le plus Saint Devoir de l'homme est L'INSURRECTION . " La Fayette . + " As soon as I began to divest myself of the prejudices with which my education had been infected , I felt the holy spirit of insurrection kindle in my heart . " M. l ...
... Le plus Saint Devoir de l'homme est L'INSURRECTION . " La Fayette . + " As soon as I began to divest myself of the prejudices with which my education had been infected , I felt the holy spirit of insurrection kindle in my heart . " M. l ...
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Additional Notes ALEXANDER LAMETH Archbishop of Sens Assembly assignats beef Bill Bintinaye breeches Brentford Brissot Britain's British Oak BUBBLE AND SQUEAK chitterlings Church clergy Commons Condorcet Constitution Convention Courier democratic despotism Devil Dutch Enceladus enlighten'd ev'ry Fayette Fennel Fox's Speech France Freedom French friends Gainst Gallic give gold Gorsas grand head Heav'n honour Horne Tooke House Hudibras Ibid Imprescriptive Insurrection J. H. Stone Jack Holliday Jack Sprat Jack the Second Jacobins John Horne Tooke Kersaint King La Fayette late Liberty Lords mankind Marat melancholy Minister Mirabeau nation ne'er never nose o'er orator Paris Parliament patriot Philosophers Phlebotomist PITT Priestley's principles RADICAL REFORM RALPH BATHURST reason regeneration religion Revolution Robespierre royal sacred Sans-Culottes sentiments shew shut Sirs soul Sov'REIGN swore Syeyes talents thing throne tion toast Twas Typhoeus Véritable Portrait Whig Club words zeal
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Page 3 - This shows how perfectly the rump And commonwealth in Nature jump : For as a fly, that goes to bed, Rests with his tail above his head ; So, in this mongrel state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers ; That horsed us on their backs, to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us.
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