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" It is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expressions of execration, which accompanied these monsters on their journey ; it was fortunate for them that the weather was dry,, had it been otherwise they would have been smothered.... "
Travels in France, During the Years 1814-15: Comprising a Residence at Paris ... - Page 326
by Archibald Alison - 1816
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Travels in France, during the years 1814-15 [by sir A. Alison and P.F. Tytler].

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1815 - 314 pages
...repose, by which the scene was distinguished; on the declivities below the wood, the vineyards, garden and fruit-trees, covered the sunny banks which descended...wooded hills, and illuminated the summit of the village Bpire; the grass and the vines were still glittering in the morning dew, and the songs of the peasants...
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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to ...

Byrne Fone - 1998 - 880 pages
...Strand, on their return, a coachman stood upon his box, and gave Cook five or six cuts with his whip. It is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expressions of execration which accompanied these monsters on their journey; it was fortunate...
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Sexual Outcasts, 1750-1850: Sodomy

Ian McCormick - 2000 - 424 pages
...eradicated humanity; they became the very thing not fit to be mentioned, as one journalist helplessly noted, 'it is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expression of execration, which accompanied these monsters on their journey.' 38 Linked with...
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Homophobia: A History

Byrne Fone - 2001 - 500 pages
...further indignation of the most enraged populace we ever saw." Indeed, it was generally agreed that "it is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expressions of execration, which accompanied these monsters on their journey."47 Rather than...
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The Monk

Matthew Gregory Lewis - 2003 - 486 pages
...belonged to the notorious Jonathan Wild,1 the prisoners resembled bears dipped in a stagnant pool.... It is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expressions of execration which accompanied these monsters on their journey. It was fortunate...
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Bibliography of Forbidden Books -, Volume 1

Henry Spencer Ashbee - 2007 - 629 pages
...Strand, on their return, a coachman stood upon his box, and gave Cook five or six cuts with his whip. " It is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expressions of execration, which accompanied these monsters on their journey ; it was fortunate...
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The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815

T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 pages
...enormous crowd many thousands strong, all determined to express their indignation with word and missile: 'it is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea of the universal expressions of execration, which accompanied these monsters on their journey', as one newspaper...
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