Remarkable Trials of All Countries ...Diossy & Cockroft, 1867 - 464 Seiten |
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... PRASLIN ... 307 .. 372 Full Particulars of the Tragedy - Domestic Difficulties in the Family The Murder - Examination of the Accused and of Mademoiselle De Luzy Desportes , the Governess - Eloquent Letters , Impressions and Diary of the ...
... PRASLIN ... 307 .. 372 Full Particulars of the Tragedy - Domestic Difficulties in the Family The Murder - Examination of the Accused and of Mademoiselle De Luzy Desportes , the Governess - Eloquent Letters , Impressions and Diary of the ...
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... Praslin by her husband - the Duke de Choiseul - Praslin . No event of its terrible character had ever , perhaps , such sad results , or exercised such powerful influ- History has traced it as being one of the principal causes of the ...
... Praslin by her husband - the Duke de Choiseul - Praslin . No event of its terrible character had ever , perhaps , such sad results , or exercised such powerful influ- History has traced it as being one of the principal causes of the ...
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... Praslin family - Mademoiselle Deluzy Desportes , at the time of the tragedy left Paris some time after the murder , and is at present residing in the City of New York . We annex her examination before the French court , together with ...
... Praslin family - Mademoiselle Deluzy Desportes , at the time of the tragedy left Paris some time after the murder , and is at present residing in the City of New York . We annex her examination before the French court , together with ...
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... Praslin had by this union three sons ( of whom Gaston Louis Phillipe , born the 7th August , 1834 , is the present duke ) , and six daughters . At the period when the dreadful tragedy happened , the two eldest of these children , who ...
... Praslin had by this union three sons ( of whom Gaston Louis Phillipe , born the 7th August , 1834 , is the present duke ) , and six daughters . At the period when the dreadful tragedy happened , the two eldest of these children , who ...
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... Praslin . Such a letter , therefore , became vital to Mdlle . Deluzy , and the duke undertook to procure it . He was to have obtained it the very morning the duchess was found murdered . The departure of Mdlle . Deluzy from the Praslin ...
... Praslin . Such a letter , therefore , became vital to Mdlle . Deluzy , and the duke undertook to procure it . He was to have obtained it the very morning the duchess was found murdered . The departure of Mdlle . Deluzy from the Praslin ...
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Seite 361 - For his eyes are upon the ways of man, And he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Seite 365 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Seite 338 - ... others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, and casting them, if need be, to the wind, he must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate it should unhappily be to involve his country in confusion for his client's sake...
Seite 353 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 65 - Vengeance, Irishmen ! vengeance on your oppressors! Remember what thousands of your dearest friends have perished by their merciless orders. Remember their burnings, their rackings, their torturings, their military massacres, and their legal murders. Remember Orr ! Mr.
Seite 424 - The consequence of this violence was not immediate death ; but his lordship, seeing the wretched victim still alive and sensible, though agonized with pain, felt a momentary motion of pity. He ordered his servants to convey Mr. Johnson up ^stairs to a bed, to send for a surgeon, and give immediate notice of the accident to the wounded man's family. When Mr. Johnson's daughter came to the house, she was met by the earl, who told her he had shot her father on purpose, and with deliberation. The same...
Seite 83 - God, or a future state, you cannot swear him. What swear him upon? Is it upon the book, or the leaf? You might as well swear him by a bramble, or a coin. The ceremony of kissing is only the external symbol, by which man seals himself to the precept, and says, "May God so help me, as I swear the truth.
Seite 64 - Let them find no quarter, unless they shall prove their repentance by speedily exchanging the standard of slavery for that of freedom, under which their former errors may be buried, and they may share the glory and advantages that are due to the patriot bands of Ireland. Many of the military feel the love of liberty glow within their breaats, and have joined the national standard.
Seite 423 - The earl had dismissed every person in the house upon various pretences, except three women, who were left in the kitchen. Johnson, advancing to the door of his apartment, was received by his lordship, who desired him to walk into another room, where he joined him in a few minutes, and then the door was locked on the inside. After a great deal of warm...
Seite 439 - I acknowledge being guilty of the death of poor Maria Marten, by shooting her with a pistol. The particulars are as follows: — When we left her father's house, we began quarrelling about the burial of the child, she apprehending that the place, wherein it was deposited, would be found out.