The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 10R. Cadell, 1835 |
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... Authority of the Commune of Paris paramount even over the Con- vention . - Documents of the Iron - Chest . - Parallel be- twixt Charles I. and Louis XVI . - Motion by Pétion , that the King should be tried before the Convention , CHAP ...
... Authority of the Commune of Paris paramount even over the Con- vention . - Documents of the Iron - Chest . - Parallel be- twixt Charles I. and Louis XVI . - Motion by Pétion , that the King should be tried before the Convention , CHAP ...
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... Authority of the Community of Paris paramount even over the Convention . - Documents of the Iron - Chest . Parallel betwixt Charles I. and Louis XVI . - Motion by Pétion , that the King should be Tried before the Convention . - - It is ...
... Authority of the Community of Paris paramount even over the Convention . - Documents of the Iron - Chest . Parallel betwixt Charles I. and Louis XVI . - Motion by Pétion , that the King should be Tried before the Convention . - - It is ...
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... authority over his , were willingly and freely granted . But , after the march from Versailles , he must have been an enthusiast for public liberty of a very uncommon character , if we could suppose him seriously wish- ing the defeat of ...
... authority over his , were willingly and freely granted . But , after the march from Versailles , he must have been an enthusiast for public liberty of a very uncommon character , if we could suppose him seriously wish- ing the defeat of ...
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Walter Scott. victory of those who had deprived him first of authority , and then of freedom . A single glance at his situation must have con- vinced the people of France , that Louis could scarcely be sincere in desiring the continuance ...
Walter Scott. victory of those who had deprived him first of authority , and then of freedom . A single glance at his situation must have con- vinced the people of France , that Louis could scarcely be sincere in desiring the continuance ...
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... authority taken place after the King reached the camp , the only safety of Louis must have been in a retreat into the Austrian territory . This chance was so evident , that Bouillé himself had provided for it , by requesting that the ...
... authority taken place after the King reached the camp , the only safety of Louis must have been in a retreat into the Austrian territory . This chance was so evident , that Bouillé himself had provided for it , by requesting that the ...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon Walter Scott Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1849 |
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Էջ 331 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore When the stormy tempests blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.
Էջ 249 - The captives were carried in triumph to the Convention, who, without admitting them to the bar, ordered them, as outlaws, for instant execution. As the fatal cars passed to the guillotine, those who filled them, but especially Robespierre, were overwhelmed with execrations from the friends and relatives of victims whom he had sent on the same melancholy road. The nature of his previous wound, from which the cloth had never been removed till the executioner tore it off, added to the torture of the...
Էջ 204 - ... an assurance that the mischief which it was their object to create should be perpetuated from one generation to another, they could not have invented a more effectual plan than the degradation of marriage into a state of mere occasional cohabitation, or licensed concubinage. Sophie Arnoult, an actress famous for the witty things she said, described the republican marriage as the sacrament of adultery.
Էջ 202 - This impious and ridiculous mummery had a certain fashion ; and the installation of the Goddess of Reason was renewed and imitated throughout...
Էջ 355 - ... find a general of nerve and decision enough to act under Barras in the actual command of the military force, in a service so delicate and times so menacing. It was then that a few words from Barras, addressed to his colleagues, Carnot and Tallien, decided the fate of Europe for well nigh twenty years. " I have the man," he said, " whom you want — a little Corsican officer, who will not stand upon ceremony.
Էջ 203 - If fiends had set themselves to work to discover a mode of most effectually destroying whatever is venerable, graceful, or permanent in domestic life, and of obtaining at the same time an assurance that the mischief which it was their object to create, should be perpetuated from one generation to another, they could not have invented a more effectual plan than the degradation of marriage into a state of mere occasional cohabitation, or licensed concubinage.
Էջ 201 - ... had been consecrated, and devoted himself in future to the homage of Liberty, Equality, Virtue, and Morality. He then laid on the table his Episcopal decorations, and received a fraternal embrace from the President of the Convention. Several apostate priests followed the example of this prelate.
Էջ 70 - I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge: I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
Էջ 161 - ... bombardment, which was calculated at two hundred millions of livres. A black flag was hoisted by the besieged on the Great Hospital, as a sign that the fire of the assailants should not be directed on that asylum of hopeless misery. The signal seemed only to draw the republican bombs to the spot where they could create the most frightful distress, and outrage in the highest degree the feelings of humanity. The devastations of famine were soon added to those of slaughter ; and after two months...
Էջ 247 - Meantime the deserted group of Terrorists within conducted themselves like scorpions, which, when surrounded by a circle of fire, are said to turn their stings on each other, and on themselves. Mutual and ferocious upbraiding took place among these miserable men. " Wretch, were these the means you promised to furnish...