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... murder than the upper chambers of the air , ) — these attributes , so impressive to the imagination , and which all the subtlety of the Roman 2 wit could as little fathom as the fleets of Cæsar could traverse the Polar basin , or unlock ...
... murder than the upper chambers of the air , ) — these attributes , so impressive to the imagination , and which all the subtlety of the Roman 2 wit could as little fathom as the fleets of Cæsar could traverse the Polar basin , or unlock ...
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... he treat his nearest and tenderest female connections ? His mother had been tortured and murdered by another tyrant almost as fiendish as himself . She was happily removed from his cruelty . Disdaining , however , to CHAPTER III. ...
... he treat his nearest and tenderest female connections ? His mother had been tortured and murdered by another tyrant almost as fiendish as himself . She was happily removed from his cruelty . Disdaining , however , to CHAPTER III. ...
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... murder ; and like the old Parisian jeweller Cardillac , in Louis XIV.'s time , who was stung with a perpetual lust for murdering the possessors of fine diamonds not so much for the value of the prize ( of which he never hoped to make ...
... murder ; and like the old Parisian jeweller Cardillac , in Louis XIV.'s time , who was stung with a perpetual lust for murdering the possessors of fine diamonds not so much for the value of the prize ( of which he never hoped to make ...
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Thomas De Quincey. difficulties and hazards of the murder , - Caligula never failed to experience ( and sometimes even to acknowledge ) a secret temptation to any murder which seemed either more than usually abominable , or more than ...
Thomas De Quincey. difficulties and hazards of the murder , - Caligula never failed to experience ( and sometimes even to acknowledge ) a secret temptation to any murder which seemed either more than usually abominable , or more than ...
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... murder . But as this taste , in the most ingenious hands , is limited and monotonous in its modes of manifestation , it would be tedious to run through the long Suetonian roll - call of his peccadilloes in this way . One only we shall ...
... murder . But as this taste , in the most ingenious hands , is limited and monotonous in its modes of manifestation , it would be tedious to run through the long Suetonian roll - call of his peccadilloes in this way . One only we shall ...
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