Thursday, January 3, 2008

Rembrandt Biblical Scene

French extraction, did require his making those passages across the Channel- though what those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose. How the evidence that had been warped and wrested from the young lady, whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady so thrown together;- with the exception of that reference to George Washington,
which was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regarded in any other fight than as a monstrous joke. How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence

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Rembrandt Biblical Scene"