Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 |
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... the little REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO , which confined upon his government , under the dominion of the Pope . The Cardinal had intrigued fo fuccessfully with fome of the principal inhabitants , that the day with 274 CARDINAL ALBERONI .
... the little REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO , which confined upon his government , under the dominion of the Pope . The Cardinal had intrigued fo fuccessfully with fome of the principal inhabitants , that the day with 274 CARDINAL ALBERONI .
Side 275
... Marino with more rapidity than that with which they had ascended it , and the Popes have ever fince that time left the inhabitants of San Marino to their old form of government * . This fingular event took place in the year 1740. A bon ...
... Marino with more rapidity than that with which they had ascended it , and the Popes have ever fince that time left the inhabitants of San Marino to their old form of government * . This fingular event took place in the year 1740. A bon ...
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... Marino ; and " instead of paradifes inhabited by devils , ( for thus " the recollection or fuppofition of better times indignantly characterises the countries through " which we had just travelled , ) this little State , " we were told ...
... Marino ; and " instead of paradifes inhabited by devils , ( for thus " the recollection or fuppofition of better times indignantly characterises the countries through " which we had just travelled , ) this little State , " we were told ...
Side 278
... Marino is at all times inacceffible , we adopted a mode " of travelling which in a country where pomp is ... Marino , whofe own manliness of character " muft approve the congenial hardihood of hum « ble pedestrains . " The distance from ...
... Marino is at all times inacceffible , we adopted a mode " of travelling which in a country where pomp is ... Marino , whofe own manliness of character " muft approve the congenial hardihood of hum « ble pedestrains . " The distance from ...
Side 279
... Marino from thofe of the Pope . Proceeding forward , we found the road " extremely narrow , much worn by the rain , " alternately rough and flippery , and always fo “ bad , that we congratulated each other on re- << ་ ་ jecting the use ...
... Marino from thofe of the Pope . Proceeding forward , we found the road " extremely narrow , much worn by the rain , " alternately rough and flippery , and always fo “ bad , that we congratulated each other on re- << ་ ་ jecting the use ...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
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Side 50 - His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur.
Side 237 - King thefe €C twenty years there ; for the whole country fell " fuddenly to him, not one town ftanding out. " When the King of Spain told the Count Oli...
Side 134 - He then turned to the people, and stretching out his hands, cried with a very loud voice, " Good Christian people ! for God's love be well aware of these men ; else they will beguile you, and lead you blindfold into hell with themselves.
Side 50 - ... far as they could be made subservient to grandeur ; the child, the female, meanness, deformity, were by him indiscriminately stamped with grandeur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty; the hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his women are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the
Side 287 - s were chiefly Romans and Florentines; men, we were told, whom fometimes misfortune and fometimes inclination, but more frequently extravagance and neceflity, drive from their refpcdive countries, and who, having relations or friends in St. Marino, eftablifh themfelves in that cheap city, where they fubfift on the wreck of their fortunes, and elude the purfuit of their creditors. Next morning Bonelli having invited feveral of his fellowcitizens to drink chocolate, we learned from them, that the morality...
Side 150 - ... have no place in his countenance, his eyes only do betray as much as can be picked out of him. He maketh me oft think of Solomon's saying, — ' Heaven is high ; the earth is deep ; a king's heart is unsearchable.
Side 279 - About two o'clock in the afternoon, we left the Borgo to climb up to the Citta, carrying our fwords in our right hands ; a precaution which the company we had juft left warranted in this modern republic, but which, as...
Side 13 - The first thing that I would therefore suggest to you is, that you ought to be grateful to God, and continually to recollect that it is not through your merits, your prudence, or your solicitude, that this event has taken place, but through his favour...
Side 421 - Much has been faid of the honour he received " by expiring in the arms of Francis the Firft. *' It was indeed an honour, by which deftiny in *' fome degree atoned to Francis for his difafter