History of the Kingdom of Naples: 1734-1825

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T. Constable and Company, 1858
 

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Side 486 - ... of it the sine qua non of their political action. A Republic may be a good or a bad thing, according to time and place. There is no general identical solution to the problem. Such could not be the case, unless the moral and intellectual education of humanity were everywhere identical.
Side 565 - Every faculty of the soul revolts against the ferocious reactionary movement, the more disgraceful from its execrable hypocrisy. We are governed by an oligarchy. The only article maintained, is that respecting the taxes. The laws have ceased to exist ; the statute is buried ; a licentious soldiery rules over everything, and the press is constantly employed to asperse honest men. The lives of the deputies are menaced. . . . Another night of St. Bartholomew is threatened to all who will not sell body...
Side 505 - A perpetual Confederation is established between the States of the Church, of the King of Sardinia, and of the Grand Duke of Tuscany; which, by the union of their strength and action, is to guarantee the dominions of the said States, and to protect the progressive and peaceful development of the liberties granted in them, and of the national prosperity.
Side 565 - ... Enough, he died fighting our eternal foe. . . . My good mother feeds her grief in the desire to come and weep over the stone which covers the bones of the beloved dead. I have promised her, as soon as my parliamentary duties give me leisure, to accompany her to fulfil this wish of her heart. . . . Our misery has reached such a climax, that it is enough to drive us mad. Every faculty of the soul revolts against the ferocious reactionary movement, the more disgraceful from its execrable hypocrisy....
Side 581 - ... probity of the legislator ; let the people themselves appoint him. They place no trust in the regularity of the administration; let them directly or indirectly lay down the principles which are to be its guide. They complain of the exorbitancy of the taxes ; let them grant and discuss their imposition. Suspicion is only cured by publicity, doubt by discussion, and distrust by reason. The representative system is the only appropriate system in similar circumstances ; and as regards Naples that...
Side 463 - ... establish connections tending towards the accomplishment of the objects proposed by this treaty. Art. 6. This treaty shall be renewed with such changes as new circumstances may give occasion for, either at a new Congress, or at the Court of one of the contracting parties, as soon as the war with Spain shall be terminated. Art. 7. The present treaty shall be ratified, and .the ratifications exchanged at Paris within the space of six months. Made at Verona...
Side 12 - No, no! The dynasty of Naples has ceased to reign ; its existence is incompatible with the repose of Europe, and the honour of my crown.
Side 423 - ... rights by which they exercised their functions, and the deplorable circumstances which were about to compel their suspension, they added, " We protest against the violation of the law of nations ; we reserve the rights of the nation and the King ; we appeal to the wisdom of his Royal Highness, and his august father ; and we commit the cause of the throne, and our national independence, into the hands of that God, who directs the destinies of kings and people.
Side 553 - Statella orders to take the command of the brigade, and follow the directions of the Government. Without losing a moment, Statella expedited couriers in every direction to the chiefs of the different corps, to commence the retrograde march ; and, thinking to be agreeable to me, they said, that as I proposed to go on, they offered to give orders to the paymaster to give me whatever sum 1 might require.
Side 270 - I leave you without a kingdom, without wealth, in the midst of many enemies. Be united and rise above misfortune. Look upon yourselves as you are, not as you might be, and God will bless your humility. Do not curse my memory. Know that my greatest misery in this last hour of my life is to die far from my children. Receive your father's blessing — receive my embraces and my tears. May the memory of your unhappy father be ever present with you.

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