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The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miracu- lous .
The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping - knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miracu- lous .
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in indistinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery - De- spair hurrying from couch to couch , to mock the wretches with his attendance : Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike .
in indistinct , but solemn and tremendous imagery - De- spair hurrying from couch to couch , to mock the wretches with his attendance : Death shaking his dart over them , but , in spite of supplications , delaying to strike .
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Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all ...
Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities of several years , and who had never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all ...
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If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members , who remained after so many deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate to themselves a power , which they held only in trust , and to ...
If he dissolved it by force , it was not till he found that the few members , who remained after so many deaths , secessions , and expulsions , were desirous to appropriate to themselves a power , which they held only in trust , and to ...
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... unless he were also a second Oliver Cromwell . The events which followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who ex- erted themselves to uphold his authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society ...
... unless he were also a second Oliver Cromwell . The events which followed his decease are the most complete vindication of those who ex- erted themselves to uphold his authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society ...
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