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system to raise up pretended plots
During the reign of terror, a short time before the 9th Thermidor, when it was the system to raise up pretended plots, to give pretexts for putting to death those that were obnoxious to Robespierre and his friends, a hasty notice was given at a sitting of the Committee of Public Safety, that a conspiracy had just been dis 145 covered to destroy the soldiers, by poisoning the brandy which was just going to be served out to them previous to an engagement.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson


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