Pictorial History of France and Normandy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time : with a Full Account of the Revolution and of the Several Rebellions of 1848Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1848 - 512 страници |
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... battles and sieges , and views of important places . In editing the work , he has endea- voured to conform to the active spirit of improvement , which is so marked a feature of the present age . CONTENTS . CHAP . I. The Gauls .... II ...
... battles and sieges , and views of important places . In editing the work , he has endea- voured to conform to the active spirit of improvement , which is so marked a feature of the present age . CONTENTS . CHAP . I. The Gauls .... II ...
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... battle was almost irresistible , but if that was repelled , they did not sustain the fight with equal courage . They were ardent in their likings and dislikings , but so fickle as to pass from the extreme of affection to that of hatred ...
... battle was almost irresistible , but if that was repelled , they did not sustain the fight with equal courage . They were ardent in their likings and dislikings , but so fickle as to pass from the extreme of affection to that of hatred ...
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... battle , and the sacking of the city of the Soissons , that an incident occurred , showing the little authority possessed by the. Inauguration of a King of the Franks . The Vase of Soissons . Clovis at the Battle of. THE FRANKS . 15.
... battle , and the sacking of the city of the Soissons , that an incident occurred , showing the little authority possessed by the. Inauguration of a King of the Franks . The Vase of Soissons . Clovis at the Battle of. THE FRANKS . 15.
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... battle - axe , which broke it into many pieces , de- claring that he would not let the king take any thing belong- ing to his part of the booty . Clovis for a time restrained his anger ; but about a year afterwards , seizing the ...
... battle - axe , which broke it into many pieces , de- claring that he would not let the king take any thing belong- ing to his part of the booty . Clovis for a time restrained his anger ; but about a year afterwards , seizing the ...
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... battle of Voillé , near Tours , gained against the Visigoths , enabled the victorious Franks to carry their banners from Toulouse to Bourdeaux , across the whole of Aquitania . On his A. D. return from the conquest Clovis entered in ...
... battle of Voillé , near Tours , gained against the Visigoths , enabled the victorious Franks to carry their banners from Toulouse to Bourdeaux , across the whole of Aquitania . On his A. D. return from the conquest Clovis entered in ...
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alliance allies Anjou appeared arms army attacked attempt Austrians barricades battle became Bourbon Brittany brother Buonaparte cardinal cause Charlemagne Charles church clergy command commenced compelled conquests count count of Flanders court crown dauphin death declared defeated died dominions dreading duke of Anjou duke of Burgundy duke of Guise duke of Orleans Edward emperor enemy engaged England English Europe favour favourite Flanders forces French garrison Gaul Guienne head Henry honour hostility Hugonots invaded Italy king of France king of Navarre king's kingdom leaders length Lothaire Louis XIV ment minister monarch Napoleon national guard negociations night nobility nobles Normandy obtained palace Paris party peace Philip pope popular possession prince of Condé prisoner protestants province queen refused reign republic resistance resolved restored retreat royal ruin seized sent siege soldiers soon sovereign Spain succeeded success surrender thousand throne tion took town treaty troops victory
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Страница 382 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Страница 382 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Страница 284 - And there was a great cry in Egypt — lamentation and bitter weeping — for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.
Страница 382 - But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Страница 382 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Страница 63 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Страница 268 - Paris at the head of his most trusty followers, delivered the most violent of the murderers to the executioner, deprived the Sixteen of the Bastille, which had been their principal stronghold, and thus finally crushed a detestable faction, which derived its whole strength from the madness of fanaticism. 11. But these favourable events were not sufficient to put Henry in possession of the kingdom, while he professed a religion odious to the majority of his subjects ; his most faithful followers, protestant...
Страница 466 - Citizens ! for my part, I will never adopt the red flag ; and I will explain in a word why I will oppose it with all the strength of my patriotism. It is, citizens, because the...
Страница 252 - His foes' derision, and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame.
Страница 441 - Amidst the agitation that hostile and blind passions foment, a conviction animates and supports me, which is that we possess in the constitutional monarchy — in the union of the great powers of the state— sure means of overcoming all those obstacles, and of satisfying all interests, moral and material. Let us firmly maintain, according to the charter, social order, and all its conditions. Let us guarantee, according to the charter, the public liberties and all their developments.