The British Essayists
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ISBN13: 9780217067928
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. 71. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. Jfos miranda quidem, sed reaper Consult Junio Gesta, super calidai referemus mania Copti; Nos vulgi scelus, et cunctis graviora colhurnis. Nam scelus a Pyrrkd, qunnquam omnia .tyrmata volvas, Nuilus apud tragicos populus facit. Accipe nostro Dira quod exeinplum feritas produxerit cevo. JUV. Sat. 15, 27. What I relate's more strange, and e'en exceeds All registers of purple tyrants' deeds; Portentous mischiefs they but singly act; A multitude conspir'd to this most horrid fact. Prepare, I say, to hear of such a crime, As tragic poets, since the birth of time, Ne'er feign'd, a thronging audience to amaze, But true, and perpetrated in our days. Dkyden. TO THE REV. SIMON OLIVE-BRANCH. REV. ant, As the world in general are fond of a sad story, and as I do not observe many of this nature in your very entertaining work, I determined to send you the following account of the celebrated Urban Grandier. I think it may conduce to two or three moral purposes; we may learn from it a lesson of caution against making enemies in the period of our prosperity, even among those whose imbecility or folly we most despise. The world hates those who are in the pride of security; and it is in the power of malice to operate our ruin with the grossest engine, when once the spirit of envy is excited against us. It shows us too, how little we should pique ourselves on the progress of refinement in these latter ages, when we consider that in the time of Louis the Thirteenth, but the third prince from that unfortunate monarch whose atrocious murder has brought fresh ignominy upon this boastful period, the sanction of the French government was given to an act of horror, hardly equalled in the annals of the Inquisition. Loudun is a sm...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217067928 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217067921 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 178 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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