The Student's France: A History of France from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Empire in 1852 : Illustrated by Engravings on WoodHarper & Brothers, 1887 - 730 Seiten |
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Seite 115 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Seite 116 - ... some resistless motive principle, was about to precipitate itself in one stupendous mass upon the shores of Asia. But the history of the movement is specially and inseparably identified with that of France. The undertaking was thoroughly congenial to the chivalrous character of the French nation, and occasioned, in fact, the earliest development of its force and vigor. It was in the heart of France that the crusade was first resolved on and proclaimed. The missionary who preached it, the Pope...
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Seite 526 - we have heard the intentions that have been suggested to the King ; but you have neither voice, nor place, nor right to speak here. However, to avoid all delay, go and tell your master that we are here by the power of the people, and that nothing but the power of bayonets shall drive us away." M. de Breze retired. Sieyes then said: "We are to-day what we were yesterday ; let us deliberate.
Seite 543 - ... and memorable vengeance, by delivering up the city of Paris to military execution and total overthrow, and the rebels guilty of such attempts to the punishment they have merited.
Seite 477 - Frederick II., Maria Theresa, Lord Chatham, Catherine II., were about to appear upon the scene; the French had none to oppose them but Cardinal Fleury with one foot in the grave, and after him. King Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour. It was amidst this state of things that the death of the Emperor Charles VI. on the 20th of October, 1740, occurred to throw Europe into a new ferment of discord and war. Maria Theresa, the emperor's eldest daughter, was twenty-three years old, beautiful, virtuous, and...
Seite 67 - Long life and victory to Charles Augustus, crowned by God, the great and pacific Emperor of the Romans!
Seite 533 - Lafayette and Necker now united their influence to procure the exile of the Duke of Orleans, who quitted France under cover of a diplomatic mission to England. The emigration of the higher nobility, which had commenced almost immediately after the fall of the Bastile, also greatly increased. The Count of Artois, brother of the king, the Princes of Conde...
Seite 80 - Imperial Rome as to have forgotten that distribution of the vast spaces comprised in the empire which had once parcelled them out into a number of independent commonwealths, claiming immunity from extrinsic interference, and pretending to equality of national rights. After the subsidence of the barbarian irruptions, the notion of sovereignty that prevailed seems to have been twofold. On the one hand it assumed the form of what may be called