Marie Antoinette and the End of the Old RégimeC. Scribner's Sons, 1890 - 300 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 232 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor : this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.
الصفحة 299 - If you want something to read, both interesting and amusing, get the Memoires de Bourrienne. These are the only authentic Memoirs of Napoleon which have yet appeared. The style is not brilliant, but that only makes them the more trustworthy.
الصفحة 69 - ... gesticulations. The subjects of his discourse were the heavens, the stars, the grand arcanum, Memphis, transcendental chemistry, giants, and the extinct monsters of the animal kingdom. He spoke, moreover, of a city in the interior of Africa ten times as large as Paris, where he pretended that he had correspondents. What a "supper of the gods
الصفحة 231 - if a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand." If it be true that, if Satan be divided against Satan, his kingdom cannot stand, it is likewise true that God cannot be divided against Himself. He is a lover of unity, and not the author of confusion. Why do we want organic unity ? We want it for the reason that it is necessary for the preservation...
الصفحة 295 - Saint-Amand has written a series of volumes which have made him one of the most popular authors of France. Each has for its nucleus some portion of the life of one of the three eminent women who presided over the French court, either at Versailles or the Tuileries, immediately before, during, and after the revolutionary epoch.
الصفحة 198 - 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.
الصفحة 260 - ... Lafayette at the head of the National Guard prevented further rioting and bloodshed. The women were finally quieted by the king's promise to remove to Paris with his wife and children. That afternoon the royal family set out on their sorrowful journey to the capital, accompanied by a mob which yelled, "We are bringing the baker, the baker's wife, and the baker's little boy.
الصفحة 172 - Notables, the demand of the provincial assemblies, the opinion of publicists, and the many addresses presented on this subject," ordered that "the number of the deputies to the States-General should be at least one thousand, and that the number of the deputies of the Third Estate should be equal to that of the clergy and nobility together.
الصفحة 67 - That's not all ; he makes gold ; he has made five or six thousand francs' worth before me, up there in the top of the palace. I am to have more ; I am to have a great deal ; he will make me the richest prince in Europe. These are not dreams, Madame ; they are proofs. And his prophecies that have come true ! and the miraculous cures he has...
الصفحة 65 - ... and prophets so numerous and so respected. Serious and educated men, magistrates, courtiers, declared themselves eye-witnesses of alleged miracles. . . . When Cagliostro came to France, he found the ground prepared for his magical operations. A society eager for distractions and emotions, indulged to every form of extravagance, necessarily welcomed such a man and hailed him as its guide. Whence did he come? What was his country, his age, his origin? Where did he get those extraordinary diamonds...