History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1860 - Europe |
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... hands , of the capital . It was not thus in old France . For sixteen years Paris was occupied by the English , and an English monarch was crowned at Rheims ; but the provinces resisted and saved the monarchy . The League long held the ...
... hands , of the capital . It was not thus in old France . For sixteen years Paris was occupied by the English , and an English monarch was crowned at Rheims ; but the provinces resisted and saved the monarchy . The League long held the ...
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... hands of some prudent or far - seeing individuals , who made them the investment of a little capital , and , instead of circulating them as money , presented them for dis- charge , and received small fragments of the ecclesiastical ...
... hands of some prudent or far - seeing individuals , who made them the investment of a little capital , and , instead of circulating them as money , presented them for dis- charge , and received small fragments of the ecclesiastical ...
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... hands , like the army ; having lost the spiritual thunder which maintained its authority in the ages of superstition ; speaking to the future , not the present wants of man- kind , it will ever be the first to be sacrificed to the VI ...
... hands , like the army ; having lost the spiritual thunder which maintained its authority in the ages of superstition ; speaking to the future , not the present wants of man- kind , it will ever be the first to be sacrificed to the VI ...
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... hand , the establishment of hereditary dignities , and of the right of primogeniture , has perpetuated the influence of ... hands into which they frequently descend , it cannot be denied that they have stamped its peculiar character upon ...
... hand , the establishment of hereditary dignities , and of the right of primogeniture , has perpetuated the influence of ... hands into which they frequently descend , it cannot be denied that they have stamped its peculiar character upon ...
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... hands of the most ardent of the lower , and , from their terrible energy , those cannoniers soon acquired a dreadful celebrity in all the bloodiest tragedies of the Revolution.1 1 Lac . vii . 357 . 41 . preciation of assignats . June 17 ...
... hands of the most ardent of the lower , and , from their terrible energy , those cannoniers soon acquired a dreadful celebrity in all the bloodiest tragedies of the Revolution.1 1 Lac . vii . 357 . 41 . preciation of assignats . June 17 ...
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10th August accused Allies ambition amidst arms army assassins assignats Austrian Bert Billaud Varennes blood Bouillé Brissot cause Champ de Mars CHAP character clergy clubs command commenced Constituent Assembly constitution Convention courage court crimes danger Danton death declared decree defenders democratic Deux Amis Dumourier eloquence emigrants enemies Europe excited Feuillants force France French Girondists head Hist hundred influence insurrection Jacobin club Jacobins King L'Ami du Peuple Lafayette leaders liberty Louis Louis XVI Madame Madame Roland Marat massacres measures Mém ment military minister Mirabeau Moll monarch Moniteur multitude municipality murdered National Assembly national guard never noble palace Paris Parl party passions period Pétion popular principles prisons Prussian Queen rendered republic republican Rév Revolution revolutionary Robespierre roused royal family Royalists Sept soon sovereign Swiss Swiss Guard thousand throne tion Toul troops Tuileries Varennes Vergniaud VIII violent whole
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Page 51 - We swear to be faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king ; and to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen, by the indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Page 685 - ... dans aucune loi existante ; n'ayant que Dieu pour témoin de mes pensées , et auquel je puisse m'adresser, je déclare ici en sa présence mes dernières volontés et mes sentimens. » Je laisse mon âme à Dieu, mon créateur ; je le prie de la recevoir dans sa miséricorde, de ne pas la juger...
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Page 687 - Hue, que leur véritable attachement pour moi avait portés à s'enfermer avec moi dans ce triste séjour, et qui ont pensé en être les malheureuses victimes. Je lui recommande aussi Cléry, des soins duquel j'ai en tout lieu de me louer depuis qu'il est avec moi.
Page 372 - Fly from the French Constitution.' " Fox at this point eagerly called to him that there was no loss of friends. "Yes, yes," cried Burke, " there is a loss of friends. I know the price of my conduct. I have done my duty at the price of my friend. Our friendship is at an end.
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Page 457 - Queen, or royal family, and if provision is not immediately made for their safety, preservation, and liberty, they will inflict a signal, rare, and memorable vengeance, by delivering up the city of Paris to military execution and total overthrow, and the rebels guilty of such attempts to the punishment they have merited.
Page 409 - Comte d'Artois, jointly declare that they regard the present situation of his majesty the King of France, as a matter of common interest to all the sovereigns of Europe. They trust that this interest will not fail to be recognized by the powers, whose aid is solicited, and that in consequence they will not refuse to employ, in conjunction with their said majesties, the most efficient means in...
Page 365 - He could not account for it, unless it was that Canada having been formerly a French colony, there might be an opportunity of reviving those titles of honour, the extinction of which some gentlemen so much deplored, and to revive in the West that spirit of chivalry which had fallen into disgrace in a neighbouring country.
Page 370 - ... torn asunder, and every man seemed to thirst for the blood of his neighbour. - Black spirits and white, blue spirits and grey, Mingle, mingle, mingle.