The French revolution, sketches1799 - 80 pages |
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... lady beside her ; " this event forebodes much misery to France and ourselves . " Too truly was the prediction verified in the experience of her who uttered it ; she and all her family perished in the course of the revolution . The ...
... lady beside her ; " this event forebodes much misery to France and ourselves . " Too truly was the prediction verified in the experience of her who uttered it ; she and all her family perished in the course of the revolution . The ...
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... lady , he said , " Figure to yourself a tiger that has had the small - pox . " Yet , in spite of these unprepos- sessing features , he possessed the rare gift of swaying popular assemblies . " I will show them the boar's head , " was ...
... lady , he said , " Figure to yourself a tiger that has had the small - pox . " Yet , in spite of these unprepos- sessing features , he possessed the rare gift of swaying popular assemblies . " I will show them the boar's head , " was ...
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... lady , supposed by mistake to be the daughter of the governor , was on the point of being burned alive by the populace , had she not been rescued by some of the more humane spectators . Thus broke out the first ebulli- tions of those ...
... lady , supposed by mistake to be the daughter of the governor , was on the point of being burned alive by the populace , had she not been rescued by some of the more humane spectators . Thus broke out the first ebulli- tions of those ...
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... Ladies were compelled to give up the title- deeds of their estates , by having an axe laid to their head , or a pitchfork to their throat . The roads of France were covered with the young and aged ; the fair and the noble fiying from ...
... Ladies were compelled to give up the title- deeds of their estates , by having an axe laid to their head , or a pitchfork to their throat . The roads of France were covered with the young and aged ; the fair and the noble fiying from ...
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... - cessions of the citizens waited on the assembly , with their patriotic gifts . Sempstresses gave their thimbles , ladies their rings - until , as it has been facetiously observed , the table of the president SKETCHES OF ITS HISTORY . 57.
... - cessions of the citizens waited on the assembly , with their patriotic gifts . Sempstresses gave their thimbles , ladies their rings - until , as it has been facetiously observed , the table of the president SKETCHES OF ITS HISTORY . 57.
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Page 5 - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
Page 9 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Page 160 - His last words were to Samson the Headsman himself: "Thou wilt show my head to the people; it is worth showing.
Page 61 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 135 - Job xxi. 15. They count him worthy neither to be loved nor feared They dare not behave with that slight and disregard towards one of their...
Page 136 - LORD encampeth round about them that fear him : and delivereth them. 0 taste and see that the LORD is good : blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Page 181 - But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?
Page 52 - If for my consolation Monseigneur would grant me, for the sake of God and the Most Blessed Trinity, that I could have news of my dear wife; were it only her name on a card, to show that she is alive! It were the greatest consolation I could receive; and I should forever bless the greatness of Monseigneur.
Page 22 - ... righteousness exalteth a nation, but" that "sin is a reproach to any people.
Page 28 - God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day; but she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.