Date: 1782
"In this view of the case perhaps that species of detraction, which a court of law will not denominate a libel, in a court of conscience and in the eye of Heaven shall amount to murder. I had almost forgot to add that Castillo was a poet."
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Date: 1793
"From that time he was mortified at the court of Burgundy by the nick-name of the booted head. Comines felt the wound in his mind."
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