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A daring, and defperate Leader, in any great Metropolis, at the Head of a numerous Mob, is terrible to the Peace of Society, even in the moft defpotic Governments …

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Yes fir, I do hope that the authority of the union and of that ftate may never come in conta6t, that we may not be under the neceffity of putting down the defperate meafures of that ftate.

Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812

* « Now every 'defperate blockhead dares to write,

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

V.C. defcnfio, qui Maurum equo dejedlxur defperate pugnantem pingi arbitratur.

Q. Horatii Flacci Opera 1796

The army collected by Robert exceeded not thirty thoufand combatants; but being compofed of men who had diftinguifhed themfelves by many acts of valour, who were rendered defperate by their fitua - tion, and who were inured to ail the varieties of for - tune, they might juflly, under fuch a leader, be deemed formidable to the moft numerous and belt appointed armies.

The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796

VVhen Jove and the Giants, in defperate fray On Olympus, were boxing it round;

The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author Clare, Thomas 1796

Therefore, like defperate debtors, hey ftifle every ferious thought, left a confcioufnefs f their long arrears, and a profpcft of the dreadful eckoning, fhould torment them before the time.

Life in God's favour, the substance of sundry sermons upon Psalm, 30. 5 1796

Froissard*, a contemporary writer and very impartial, but whofe credit is fomewhat impaired by his want of exactnefs in material facts, aicribes to the duke of Glocefler more defperate views, and fuch as were totally incompatible with the govern - ment and domeilic tranquillity of the nation.

The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796

Unequal to my theme, with defperate feet I fought the Mufe's bower;

The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author Clare, Thomas 1796

The befieged fee fire to thefe houfes, and the attack be - came ftill more defperate; the royalifts were often driven down the ramparts, and the rocks that overhung the town ftreamed with blood.

Sketch of the Politics of France, 1793-94 1795