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" ... parricide. He that was guilty of parricide was beaten with rods upon his naked body till the blood gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong... "
The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches ... - Page 252
by William Hazlitt - 1810
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Orations of British Orators: Including Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

1899 - 616 pages
...blood gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...appointed to stand behind him to warn him not to be high-minded nor puffed up with overweening thoughts of himself; and to his chariot were tied a whip...
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Orations of British Orators, Including Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 23

1900 - 496 pages
...gushed out of all the veins of his body ; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...appointed to stand behind him to warn him not to be high-minded nor puffed up with overweening thoughts of himself; and to his chariot were tied a whip...
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The Handbook of Oratory: A Cyclopedia of Authorities on Oratory as an Art ...

William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack, called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...greater crime than parricide, all the world over. — ( Delivered in the Scottish Parliament in 1706, protesting against union with England.) Bell, John...
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The Cyclopedia of Oratory: A Handbook of Authorities on Oratory as an Art ...

W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack, called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...greater crime than parricide, all the world over. — ( Delivered in the Scottish Parliament in 1706, protesting against union with England.) Bell, John...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 4

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 466 pages
...blood gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...triumph, my lord, when the conqueror was riding in bis triumphal chariot, crowned with laurels, adorned with trophies, and applauded with huzzas, there...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 4

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...blood gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...appointed to stand behind him, to warn him not to be highminded, nor puffed up with overweening thoughts of himself; and to his chariot were tied a whip...
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News Out of Scotland: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Verse and Prose ...

Eleanor Mabel Valentine Brougham (Hon.) - 1926 - 314 pages
...gushed out of all the veins of his body ; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong...greater crime than parricide, all the world over. . . . John Hamilton, Lord Belhaven, at the Scottish Parliament House. HATCHWAY'S EPITAPH ON COMMODORE...
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Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation ...

Leith Davis - 1998 - 240 pages
...till the Blood gush'd out of all the Veins of his Body; then he was sow'd up in a Leathern Sack . . . with a Cock, a Viper, and an Ape, and thrown headlong into the Sea" (p. 6). A worse crime than parricide, suggests Belhaven, is patricide—and that is what the Scottish...
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The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 ..., Volume 2

1864 - 340 pages
...the blood gushed out through all the veins. Then he was sewed up in a leathern sack, called a culeus, with a cock, -a viper and an ape, and thrown headlong into the sea. Sir, patricide is a greater crime than parricide ; and Abraham Lincoln is a patricide. He has tried...
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