The History of the War: From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Present Time, Том 1T. Kinnersley, 1816 - 478 страница |
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... continued by successive legislatures , each of which should continue two years , and to consist of one chamber ; the right of making laws and imposing taxes was to reside in the legislature , and a power was vested in the king of ...
... continued by successive legislatures , each of which should continue two years , and to consist of one chamber ; the right of making laws and imposing taxes was to reside in the legislature , and a power was vested in the king of ...
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... continued during the remainder of the year , to proceed with vigor and dispatch in the forination of a constitution . Rigorous measures were adopted against sedition , which produced the subsequent massacre of the Champ de Mars , and ...
... continued during the remainder of the year , to proceed with vigor and dispatch in the forination of a constitution . Rigorous measures were adopted against sedition , which produced the subsequent massacre of the Champ de Mars , and ...
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... continued flights of his eloquence on great occasions , or the majestic cadence of his language , and the varied intonations of his voice on unim- portant subjects . portant subjects . Nor were the features of his countenance or the ...
... continued flights of his eloquence on great occasions , or the majestic cadence of his language , and the varied intonations of his voice on unim- portant subjects . portant subjects . Nor were the features of his countenance or the ...
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... continued without inter- mission , and on the 22nd , general Aber- crombie conceiving it necessary to take possession of an evacuated redoubt and a grove , situated between his camp and the fort , the possession was warmly disputed by a ...
... continued without inter- mission , and on the 22nd , general Aber- crombie conceiving it necessary to take possession of an evacuated redoubt and a grove , situated between his camp and the fort , the possession was warmly disputed by a ...
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... continued the whole night of the 2nd at the abbey and the prison of the Chatelet , whence they proceeded to the prison of La Force , where the ladies of the court , arrested on the 10th of August , had been confined . Among these was ...
... continued the whole night of the 2nd at the abbey and the prison of the Chatelet , whence they proceeded to the prison of La Force , where the ladies of the court , arrested on the 10th of August , had been confined . Among these was ...
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admiral allies archduke arms arrived artillery assembly attack Austrian bank Batavian republic battalions battle body Britain British Buonaparte camp campaign captain cavalry colonel column command commander-in-chief conduct convention corps court Danube declared defended detachment division duke Dumouriez Egypt emperor enemy enemy's engaged English evacuated execution fire fleet force formed France French army French government French republic garrison Genoa Girondists guard hostilities immediately imperial infantry inhabitants Italy Jacobins Kehl king liberty lord lord Melville lord Nelson loss majesty Mamelukes Mantua Massena measures ment military minister Moreau nation negotiation object occupied officers Paris party passed peace pieces of cannon port position possession posts present prince prisoners proceeded received regiment reinforced rendered republicans retired retreat Rhine river Russian sent ships siege soldiers squadron Sublime Porte success surrender Suwarrow territory tion took Toulon town treaty troops Tyrol vessels victory whole wounded
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Страница 31 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock ; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the State, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society ; for I have m my contemplation the civil social man, and no Other.
Страница 31 - If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things...
Страница 314 - Shoals), flanked by numerous gunboats, four frigates, and a battery of guns and mortars...
Страница 572 - I formed the infantry immediately in two lines with the British cavalry, as a reserve in a third, in an open space between that river and a Nullah running parallel to it.
Страница 588 - ... and England with a fleet that made her mistress of the seas, and which he did not think he should be able to equal in less than ten years : two such countries, by a proper understanding, might govern the world, but by their strifes might overturn it.
Страница 48 - Tuileries be forced or insulted, if the least violence be offered, the least outrage done to their majesties, the king, the queen, and the royal family, if they be not immediately placed in safety and set at liberty, they will inflict on those who shall deserve it the most exemplary and ever memorable avenging punishments, by giving up the city of Paris to military execution, and exposing it to total destruction ; and the rebels who shall be guilty of illegal resistance shall suffer the punishments...
Страница 587 - ... in the interior. In confirmation of this he told me, that two men had within these few days been apprehended in Normandy, and were now on their way to Paris, who were hired assassins, and employed by the Bishop of Arras, by the Baron de...
Страница 380 - I accordingly landed the boats at the Mole, and took the crews up to the breach, armed with pikes. The enthusiastic gratitude of the Turks, men, women, and children, at the sight of such a reinforcement, at such a time, is not to be described.
Страница 303 - They are an invincible people, inhabiting a burning desert, mounted on the fleetest horses in the world, and full of courage. They live with their wives and children in flying camps, which are never pitched two nights together in the same place. They are horrible savages, and yet they have some notion of gold and silver ! a small quantity of it serves to excite their admiration.
Страница 314 - His idea, in this disposition of his force was, first, to secure the victory ; and, then, to make the most of it, as circumstances might permit.