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Constitutum est, ut quisquis eum HOMINEM dixisset fuisse,

capitalem penderet poenam.

-St. Augustine, "Of the God Serapis," l. 18, "de Civ. Dei," c. 5.

(It was decreed, that whoso should say that he had been a MAN,

should suffer the punishment of a capital offence.)

Robespierre was reclining languidly in his fauteuil, his cadaverous c

            
            

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