Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Հատոր 1

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Cassell and Company, 1893 - 376 էջ

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Էջ 91 - Je sais mes perfidies, Œnone, et ne suis point de ces femmes hardies Qui, goûtant dans le crime une tranquille paix, Ont su se faire un front qui ne rougit jamais.
Էջ 61 - Qu'on parle mal ou bien du fameux Cardinal, Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien : II m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, II m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien.
Էջ 76 - 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 75 - As soon as the king had left the carriage, three guards surrounded him, and would have taken off his clothes, but he repulsed them with haughtiness : he undressed himself, untied his neckcloth, opened his shirt, and arranged it himself. The guards, whom the determined countenance of the king had, for a moment, disconcerted, seemed to recover their audacity.— They surrounded him again, and would have seized his hands. 'What are you attempting?' said the king, drawing back his hands, ' To bind you,
Էջ 152 - This great city appears to be in many respects the most ineligible and inconvenient for the residence of a person of small fortune of any that I have seen; and vastly inferior to London. The streets are very narrow, and many of them crowded, ninetenths dirty, and all without foot-pavements.
Էջ 19 - Being among the crowd, and attempting to approach too near the scaffold, he was at first repulsed by one of the executioners, but having informed the person that he had made the journey from London, solely with a view to be present at the punishment and death of Damien, the man immediately caused the people to make way, exclaiming at the same time, " Faites place pour Monsieur. C'est un anglois et un amateur.
Էջ 76 - King was obliged to lean on my arm, and from the slowness with which he proceeded, I feared for a moment that his courage might fail; but what was my astonishment, when arrived at the last step, I felt that he suddenly let go my arm, and I saw him cross with a firm foot the breadth of the whole scaffold...
Էջ 70 - ... to dry in any washerwoman's yard. The sun, for it is seen here sometimes, is a lighted torch in a lantern. The cars of the gods and goddesses are composed of four rafters...
Էջ 73 - These last words were said like all the rest with a degree of cold-blooded indifference, which characterized an atrocious mind. I put my request in writing and left it on the table. They re-conducted me to the King, who awaited with anxiety the conclusion of this affair. The summary account which I gave him, in which I suppressed all particulars, pleased him extremely. It was now past ten o'clock, and I remained with the King till the night was far advanced; when perceiving that he was fatigued,...
Էջ 35 - ... of twenty-five millions of people sitting on the construction of a new and better order and fabric of liberty, than Europe has yet offered. It will now be seen, whether they will copy the constitution of England, freed from its faults, or attempt, from theory, to frame something absolutely speculative...

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