France, Its King, Court, and Government: And, Three Hours at Saint CloudWiley and Putnam, 1841 - 203 страници |
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Страница 94 - Famemque 785 fata coire sinunt), montani numinis unam talibus agrestem conpellat oreada dictis : ' est locus extremis Scythiae glacialis in oris, triste solum, sterilis, sine fruge, sine arbore tellus...
Страница 78 - On that rock his whole adventure split, his whole scheme of economy was dashed to pieces. His department became more expensive than ever; the civil list debt accumulated. Why? It was truly from a cause which, though perfectly adequate to the effect, one would not have instantly guessed. It was because the turnspit in the king's kitchen was a member of Parliament!
Страница 116 - Baring was on a visit to the Falls of Niagara, and having almost exhausted his patience, at the state of the roads and the difficulties he had encountered, he expressed a doubt whether Niagara itself would furnish an adequate recompense for the fatigue and privation necessary to reach it. Mr Jefferson, after describing the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge at Harper's Ferry, with great beauty and animation, adds, that many a one has lived and died within a short distance of this sublime...
Страница 36 - A social revolution The social state being gangrened, to arrive at a state of health requires heroic remedies ; the people will have need during some time of a revolutionary power." What is here meant by " heroic remedies" and " a revolutionary power," may be learned in the history of France during the despotism of Robespierre.
Страница 11 - ... surrounded by a physical force sufficiently strong to prevent all access to the royal person. The guards who attend the King of the French, whenever he leaves the walls of his palace, are not in the performance of a vain ceremony, like those with which many of the European sovereigns are accompanied ; but they are in the execution of a necessary duty, and without their presence the life of the monarch would not be worth a day's purchase. What is the cause of this deplorable state of things ?...
Страница 112 - Although one of the remains of that period of forensic adventures, I am far enough separated from it, and from the scenes of their occurrence, by time and space, to speak of the actors without the charge of vanity or prejudice; and after having since surveyed life in the four quarters of the...
Страница 165 - his face very red,' and says: "Frenchmen, I die innocent: it is from the Scaffold and near appearing before God that I tell you so. I pardon my enemies; I desire that France-" A General on horseback, Santerre or another, prances out with uplifted hand: "Tambours!" The drums drown the voice. "Executioners do your duty!
Страница 102 - King asked his distinguished host, how he had slept the preceding night. It is probable, from the answer, that some peculiar circumstance had turned his thoughts towards the evils too often produced in society by reprehensible publications. However this may be, that answer deserves to be engraved upon the hearts of his countrymen : " I always sleep well, for I never wrote a word in my life which I had afterwards cause to regret.
Страница 74 - By the change of manners, and indeed by the nature of the thing, they must be so ; I mean the several keepers of buck-hounds, stag-hounds, fox-hounds, and harriers. They answer no purpose of utility or of splendour. These I propose to abolish. It is not proper that great noblemen should be keepers of dogs, though they were the king's dogs.
Страница 91 - Montesquiou, and determined to remove himself farther from France. There was not wanting a party even at that day, which hoped to see a constitutional monarchy established, with the Duke of Orleans at its head ; and the weight of character he had acquired rendered him an object of hatred and suspicion to the terrible and ever-changing rulers who at that era of desperate energy governed and died in blood. His own wish was to seek refuge in the United States ; but the heir of the House of Orleans,...