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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ... him from affording them relief, and since then no complaint of their's had reached his ear. Now his last son was at rest, enclosed in the narrow coffin, and buried deep in the earth. The king, tired of life, mounted his judgment seat once again, and commanded those unfeeling counsellors before him, and punished them. He caused the grand-children of his ancestor to be sought for, but none of them were to be found in his kingdom. They dwelt in foreign countries, in the peaceful enjoyment of domestic happiness, and despised the gifts which he now proffered too late. The name of his race was not extinct, but had descended from the princely dignity to thp middle station of life. Insanity at length seized on the hapless prince, and when the ocean was raging with its wildest fury around the rocks upon which his castle raised its lofty turrets, he threw' himself headlong down from the battlements into the foaming flood. His corpse was never found; the coffinmaker had said, 'thou wilt not need a coffin.' A boundless ocean swallows up, at last, all generations of men--some rise above, some sink below. Ye, who rise, compassionate the sinking, for ye are supported only by the Divine mercy. Lit. Mag. From the Journal of a gentleman just'returned from India, we take the following notice: 'Our touching at St. Helena would have been an incident devoid of interest to me, had it not been for the opportunity of viewing the tomb of him whose devastating arms spread terror over the lace of Europe. St. Helena appeared to me to be in itself a frightful island--a rock of desolation--an emblem of the seat of exile--an insulated prison--a scene of all others the most likely to break the heart of one banished to its abrupt and rugged strand. It cost me a world of trouble and fatigue...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130918328
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 238
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130918327
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 431 gr


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