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... this occasion , there appeared a majestic old man , who , failing at the emperor's feet , addressed him as follows : " Great father of China , behoid a " wretch , now eighty - five years old ,. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 19.
... this occasion , there appeared a majestic old man , who , failing at the emperor's feet , addressed him as follows : " Great father of China , behoid a " wretch , now eighty - five years old ,. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 19.
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... Emperors . It was but reasonable , that every conspiracy against the adminis- tration should be detected and punished ; yet what terrible slaughters succeeded in consequence of its enactment ? proscriptions , stranglings , poisonings ...
... Emperors . It was but reasonable , that every conspiracy against the adminis- tration should be detected and punished ; yet what terrible slaughters succeeded in consequence of its enactment ? proscriptions , stranglings , poisonings ...
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... emperor , who being told that his ene- mies had raised an insurrection in one of the distant provinces ; come then , my friends , said he , follow me , and I promise you that we shall quickly destroy them ; he marched forward , and the ...
... emperor , who being told that his ene- mies had raised an insurrection in one of the distant provinces ; come then , my friends , said he , follow me , and I promise you that we shall quickly destroy them ; he marched forward , and the ...
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... Emperor Yu ; therefore the Chinese are a colony from Egypt . But another of the learned is entirely different from the last ; and he will have the Chinese to be a colony planted by Noah , just after the deluge . First , from the vast ...
... Emperor Yu ; therefore the Chinese are a colony from Egypt . But another of the learned is entirely different from the last ; and he will have the Chinese to be a colony planted by Noah , just after the deluge . First , from the vast ...
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... Emperors themselves in this country periodically supply the press . A man here who should write , and honestly confess that he wrote for bread , might as well send his ma- nuscript to fire the baker's oven ; not one creature will read ...
... Emperors themselves in this country periodically supply the press . A man here who should write , and honestly confess that he wrote for bread , might as well send his ma- nuscript to fire the baker's oven ; not one creature will read ...
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