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THOMAS PAINE.
1737-1809.
_Letter to the Addressers_.
And the final event to himself (Mr. Burke)
has been that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell
like the stick.
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_The Crisis_. No. 1.
These are the times that try men's souls.
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_Age of Reason_. Part ii. ad fin. (note).
The sublime and the ridiculous are so often
so nearly related that it is difficult to class
them separately. One step above the sublime
makes the ridiculous, and one step above the
ridiculous makes the sublime again.[29]
[Note 29: Probably the original of Napoleon's celebrated mot,
"Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas."]
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DON JOSEPH PALAFOX.
1780-1843.
_At the Siege of Saragossa_.
War to the knife.
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THOMAS B. MACAULAY.
_Edinburgh Review, Oct., 1840, on Ranke's History of the Popes_.
She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor,
when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast
solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the
ruins of St. Paul's.
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JOHN RANDOLPH.
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