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Swore they would seize the rebel slave of tyrants,
Newspapers 2007
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Therefore, whenever we happen to be treated with inhumanity by tyrants,
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Mastrius de Mandula, [206] which was published under the express sanction of the officers of the order, and who justifies restrictiones mentales even in oaths, [207] and also the murder of tyrants,
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Dare not condemn him: girls have stabbed their tyrants,
The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847
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-- Some, more by persuasion than any thing else; while others, with humane feelings and lively zeal for our good, seeing how much we suffer from the afflictions poured upon us by unmerciful tyrants,
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While he never states, without qualifications and objections, the charges which the earliest and best historians have brought against his favourite tyrants,
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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When I could not prevail on Edward, either by entreaty or reproaches, to remit the last gloomy vengeance of tyrants,
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813
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Swore they would seize the rebel slave of tyrants,
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Perfect, something else about what always comes of tyrants,
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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The public strength, instead of being united against a foreign enemy, was consumed in obscure and intestine quarrels; and the personal merit which had placed a successful leader at the head of his equals, might enable him to subdue the freedom of some neighboring cities; and to claim a rank among the tyrants,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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