The History of the Life and Reign of George the Fourth, Volume 3Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... political liberty , which they owed , not so much to the constitutional charter of Louis XVIII . , as to the temporising weakness of his party and government . The measures of the re- stored king , sanctioned as a matter of course by ...
... political liberty , which they owed , not so much to the constitutional charter of Louis XVIII . , as to the temporising weakness of his party and government . The measures of the re- stored king , sanctioned as a matter of course by ...
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... political existence . While this august monarch is occupied with the happiness which he designs for your country , show that you are ready to support his generous endeavours with your blood . The same chiefs who for these twenty years ...
... political existence . While this august monarch is occupied with the happiness which he designs for your country , show that you are ready to support his generous endeavours with your blood . The same chiefs who for these twenty years ...
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... political ideas . He manifested irresolution . General Lecourbe and the noted Bourmont , who were present when he re- ceived the letter , advised him to proclaim the emperor . He acted upon their advice ; and issued his well known order ...
... political ideas . He manifested irresolution . General Lecourbe and the noted Bourmont , who were present when he re- ceived the letter , advised him to proclaim the emperor . He acted upon their advice ; and issued his well known order ...
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... politics and power ; and that ambition itself may be best promoted , as it is best enjoyed , by a partnership of the heart . Had the emperor never discarded her who linked her fortune and her fate with the young officer of artillery who ...
... politics and power ; and that ambition itself may be best promoted , as it is best enjoyed , by a partnership of the heart . Had the emperor never discarded her who linked her fortune and her fate with the young officer of artillery who ...
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... political negotiations and intrigues of Napoleon , the allies were employed in the same way , with less activity , but with more success . A military conference was substituted for the congress at Vienna , to determine the plan of the ...
... political negotiations and intrigues of Napoleon , the allies were employed in the same way , with less activity , but with more success . A military conference was substituted for the congress at Vienna , to determine the plan of the ...
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Page 270 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 128 - Savior teachesThey solemnly declare that the present act has no other object than to publish, in the face of the whole world, their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective states, and in their political relations with every other Government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of the Holy Religion ; namely, the precepts of justice, Christian charity, and peace...
Page 290 - It would be disingenuous indeed not to admit that the entry of the French army into Spain was, in a certain sense, a disparagement, an affront to the pride, a blow to the feelings of England...
Page 58 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated ; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise!
Page 144 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of 'His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Page 57 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 101 - I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people. I put myself under the protection of their laws ; which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Page 291 - If France occupied Spain, was it necessary, in order to avoid the consequences of that occupation, that we should blockade Cadiz ? — No. I looked another way. I sought materials of compensation in another hemisphere. Contemplat- . ing Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain
Page 127 - IN the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. THEIR Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia...
Page 260 - If there be a determined project to interfere by force or by menace in the present struggle in Spain, so convinced are his Majesty's Government of the uselessness and danger of any such interference — so objectionable does it appear to them in principle...