The Growth of the French NationMacmillan, 1896 - 340 páginas |
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Página 275 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence...
Página 280 - The French people, convinced that oblivion and contempt of the natural rights of man are the only causes of calamities in the world, has resolved to explain these sacred and inalienable rights in a solemn declaration, that all citizens, by comparing always the acts of the government with the whole social union, may never suffer themselves to be oppressed and dishonored by tyranny ; that the people may always have before its eyes the fundamental pillars of its liberty and welfare, and the authorities...
Página 18 - And all this transformation was accomplished not as the result of a determined effort on the part of the Romans, but because the Gauls found it in every case for their own interests to make the change.
Página 326 - ... of December, 1851, and the proclamation of the Empire a year later...
Página 66 - It will readily be understood, however, that the condition of the serf was better than that of the slave of the earlier time whose Serfage repre- place he had taken.
Página 154 - The war which followed is of interest chiefly for the sack of Rome in 1527 by the army of Charles V., composed largely of German Protestants, in which the Rome of art and of the monuments of antiquity suffered severely.
Página 99 - ... accused of lese-majesty. The pope at once took up the cause of his legate and issued two more bulls, in which he asserted most extravagant claims of the superior right of the pope over all temporal governments. One of them, the bull Unam sandam, contains the famous declaration that it is necessary to believe that every human being is subject to the Roman pontiff.
Página 297 - Napoleon — and in the adoption of a uniform system of weights and measures — the metric system. The new government organized itself immediately on the dissolution of the Convention at the end of October, The govern. 1795. The directors would have been glad to bring the gf^,0^6 foreign war entirely to an end, but England and Austria Work of the Convention for education. The "Organizer ofVictory.
Página 326 - ... legislative sanction, but it did not differ in this regard from the various other provisional governments with which France had become familiar in revolutionary crises. The constitution which Louis Napoleon submitted to the vote of the people was one of his own construction. It reproduced forms of the imperial constitution of the first Napoleon, though it retained the name of the republic. It created Louis Napoleon president for ten years. The legislature was composed of three bodies, as in the...
Página 29 - Arian form of Christianity. They were thus brought,' at the beginning of their history, into alliance with the church which was to be, besides themselves, the other great force of the future. Indeed, this conversion of the Franks largely determined the future of the church and kept in power the strongest influence which was at work for European unity and for a higher civilization.