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War, tempest, pestilence, the rise of empires, and their fall, they ordain, they, compass, unexultant and uncompassionate.

From The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham by Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter Brougham, Baron

War, tempest, pestilence, the rise of empires and their fall, they ordain, they compass, unexultant and uncompassionate.

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron