School History of France ...Clark, 1880 - 371 Seiten |
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Seite 352 - Wellbeloved Pompadourisms: yet behold it was always coming; behold it has come, suddenly, unlocked for by any man! The harvest of long centuries was ripening and whitening so rapidly of late; and now it is grown white, and is reaped rapidly, as it were, in one day. Reaped, in this Reign of Terror; and carried home, to Hades and the Pit! — Unhappy Sons of Adam: it is ever so; and never do they know it, nor will they know it. With cheerfully...
Seite 129 - And Tressart, secretary to King Henry VI., said sorrowfully, on returning from the place of execution, " We are all lost; we have burned a saint.
Seite 172 - Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the crown of France, and the possession of a fortress on French soil was a perpetual irritation. But Calais was called the "brightest jewel in the English crown." A jewel it was, useless, costly, but dearly prized. Over the gate of Calais had once stood the insolent inscription: — "Then shall the Frenchmen Calais win, When iron and lead like cork shall swim:" and the Frenchmen had won...
Seite 74 - Chartres; else, be it known for certain that we cede not to any one aught of all these domains." Whilst this cruel war lasted Philip Augustus would not take any part in it. Not that he had any leaning towards the Albigensian heretics on the score of creed or religious liberty ; but his sense of justice and moderation was shocked at the violence employed against them, and he had a repugnance to the idea of taking part in the devastation of the beautiful southern provinces. He took it ill, moreover,...
Seite 261 - Go tell your master that we are here by the will of the people and that we shall not leave except at the point of the bayonet.
Seite 50 - Raoul in 923, gave proofs of a valor both discreet and effectual. The Carlovingians did not, as the Merovingians did, end in monkish retirement or shameful inactivity : even the last of them, and the only one termed sluggard, Louis V., was getting ready, when he died, for an expedition in Spain against the Saracens. The truth is that, mediocre or undecided or addle-pated as they may have been, they all succumbed, internally and externally, without initiating and without resisting, to the course of...
Seite 312 - ... greater qualities than the enthusiasm which captivates and subjugates the soldier. Calm in the midst of a storm of grape-shot — imperturbable amid a shower of balls and shells, Ney seemed to be ignorant of danger ; to have nothing to fear from death. This rashness, which twenty years of perils have not diminished, gave to his mind the liberty, the promptitude of judgment and execution, so necessary in the midst of the complicated movements of war. This quality astonished those who surrounded...
Seite 311 - ... thick and continued showers, which soon covered the earth with an impenetrable clothing, confounding all objects together, and leaving the army to wander in the dark through an icy desert. Great numbers of the soldiers, in struggling to get forward, fell into hollows or ditches which were concealed by the treacherous surface, and perished miserably before the eyes of their comrades ; others were swallowed up in the moving hills, which, like the sands of the desert, preceded the blast of death.
Seite 61 - ... after confession the priest gave him the communion; after the communion he attended a mass of the Holy Spirit; and, generally, a sermon touching the duties of knights and of the new life he was about to enter on. The sermon over, the candidate, advanced to the altar with the knight's sword hanging from his neck. This the priest took off, blessed, and replaced upon his neck The candidate then went and knelt before the lord who was to arm him knight. 'To what purpose,' the lord asked him, ' do...
Seite 260 - ... misfortunes were represented only as accident ; in spite of all the calamities which it induced, the balance leaned always towards the Constituent Assembly. — It was the struggle of humanity with despotism. " The States-General, six weeks after their convocation, was no longer the States-General, but the National Assembly.