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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... head of the revolutionary and destructive party ; and the two first Sovereigns of Europe were seen to forget the dignity of the throne , and place them selves on a level with the French philoso- phers . How little did the sovereign of ...
... head of the revolutionary and destructive party ; and the two first Sovereigns of Europe were seen to forget the dignity of the throne , and place them selves on a level with the French philoso- phers . How little did the sovereign of ...
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... head was inhumanly severed from his body , and it was with great difficulty that the generous marquis , a young nobleman of rank and merit , escaped the same unmerited doom . Regnart , a subaltern officer , who had prevented the ...
... head was inhumanly severed from his body , and it was with great difficulty that the generous marquis , a young nobleman of rank and merit , escaped the same unmerited doom . Regnart , a subaltern officer , who had prevented the ...
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... head , had escaped with his two sons previous to the arrival of Neckar , and deemed himself fortunate in having eluded the vengeance of his countrymen . The marshal de Broglio retreated with part of his army now on its march to the ...
... head , had escaped with his two sons previous to the arrival of Neckar , and deemed himself fortunate in having eluded the vengeance of his countrymen . The marshal de Broglio retreated with part of his army now on its march to the ...
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... head of a strong body of troops to ena- ble him to dictate reasonable terms to the assembly . The marquis de Bouille , governor of Metz , was prepared to become the chief agent in the enterprise , but he wanted an able colleague in the ...
... head of a strong body of troops to ena- ble him to dictate reasonable terms to the assembly . The marquis de Bouille , governor of Metz , was prepared to become the chief agent in the enterprise , but he wanted an able colleague in the ...
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... head stuck upon the point of my bay- onet . " In this frightful garden you see in one place a man mounted on a chair , and reading the most horrible calumnies against us in a loud voice ; in another you perceive an officer or an abbé ...
... head stuck upon the point of my bay- onet . " In this frightful garden you see in one place a man mounted on a chair , and reading the most horrible calumnies against us in a loud voice ; in another you perceive an officer or an abbé ...
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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.