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And I heard a great voice out of the Temple saying to the seven Angels, pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

Revelation XVI. 1.

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That Despot who received the wages of an hireling that he might act the part of a swindler, and who skulked from his impotent attacks on the liberties of France to perpetrate more successful iniquity in the plains of Poland.

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The Father of the present Prince of Hesse Cassell supported himself and his strumpets at Paris by the vast sums which he received from the British Government during the American war for the flesh of his subjects.