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  • This letter is introduced for the sake of Mr.C. 's reply, and to exhibit the candid and untenacious quality of his mind.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • This letter is introduced for the sake of Mr.C. 's reply, and to exhibit the candid and untenacious quality of his mind.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • Then he was touched by her sufferings, replaced his insults by caresses which were hardly more measured than his violences and, as she was gentle and untenacious, she fell back into her feeling of security "(p. 206).] --

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Then he was touched by her sufferings, replaced his insults by caresses which were hardly more measured than his violences and, as she was gentle and untenacious, she fell back into her feeling of security "(p. 206).] --

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • Then he was touched by her sufferings, replaced his insults by caresses which were hardly more measured than his violences and, as she was gentle and untenacious, she fell back into her feeling of security "(p. 206).] --

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 01 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • Then he was touched by her sufferings, replaced his insults by caresses which were hardly more measured than his violences and, as she was gentle and untenacious, she fell back into her feeling of security "(p. 206).] --

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

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