Episodes of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1795: (with an Appendix Embodying the Principal Events in France from 1789 to the Present Time,) Examined from a Political and Philosophical Point of View

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Simpkin, Marshall, 1880 - 309 páginas
 

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Página 107 - And love of ombre, after death survive. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements their souls retire : The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name.
Página 228 - Combien voyons-nous de peuples traités doucement et très fidèles à leurs princes ! , /Ce qui cause les révoltes, c'est l'ambition et l'inquiétude des grands d'un État, quand on leur a donné trop de licence et qu'on a laissé leurs passions s'étendre sans bornes; c'est la multitude des grands et des petits...
Página 266 - The ratifications of the preliminary treaty shall be exchanged in four days, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries of their Imperial Majesties of Austria and Russia, of his Majesty the King -of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of his Majesty the King of Prussia, on the one part, and the Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of the French on the other part, have signed the same, and caused the seal of their arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Chatillon,...
Página 58 - Nondimanco si vede per esperienza ne' nostri tempi, quelli principi aver fatto gran cose, che della fede hanno tenuto poco conto, e che hanno saputo con...
Página 115 - The whole country seemed one vast conflagration of revolt and vengeance. The shrieks of death were blended with the yell of the assassin and the laughter of buffoons.
Página 168 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace. See Matter next, with various life endued, Press to one centre still, the general good.
Página 203 - Robespierre put a stop to the murders, arrangements had been made for increasing them to one hundred and fifty. An immense aqueduct to remove the gore had been dug as far as the Place St. Antoine, and four men were daily employed in emptying the blood of the victims into that reservoir. It was at three in the afternoon when the melancholy procession set out from the Conciergerie. The higher orders in general behaved with firmness and serenity, and silently marched to death.
Página 57 - Quanto sia laudabile in uno principe mantenere la fede e vivere con integrità e non con astuzia, ciascuno lo intende; nondimanco si vede, per esperienza ne...
Página 203 - Gray hairs and youthful forms, countenances blooming with health and faces worn with suffering, beauty and talent, rank and virtue, were indiscriminately rolled together to the fatal doors. With truth might have been written over their portals what Dante placed over the entrance of the infernal regions : " All ye who enter here, leave Hope behind.
Página 68 - Allez dire ä votre maitre que nous sommes ici par la puissance du peuple, et qu'on ne nous en arrachera que par la force des baionnettes.

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