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The body , which had nothing to uphold it , fell on the face , and it was by three or four cuts of a sabre that the head was at length severed from the body . This hackery [ hacherie ] , if I may be allowed to invent the word , excited ...
The body , which had nothing to uphold it , fell on the face , and it was by three or four cuts of a sabre that the head was at length severed from the body . This hackery [ hacherie ] , if I may be allowed to invent the word , excited ...
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While the general revelation of immortality has thus put light in the place of darkness and joy for mourning , the particular Christian doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body in like manner suggests a decency and comeliness in the ...
While the general revelation of immortality has thus put light in the place of darkness and joy for mourning , the particular Christian doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body in like manner suggests a decency and comeliness in the ...
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There exists among the poor of the metropolitan districts an inordinate dread of premature burial ; and very terrible stories are told of bodies being found in coffins in positions that seemed to indicate that a struggle had taken place ...
There exists among the poor of the metropolitan districts an inordinate dread of premature burial ; and very terrible stories are told of bodies being found in coffins in positions that seemed to indicate that a struggle had taken place ...
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
426 note omit Madame de St Aignan who was certainly saved | 426 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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