Robespierre and the French RevolutionG. W. Jacobs, 1909 - 407 sider |
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... soldiers , and unctuous prelates paid her homage and reached high station . Flattery and adulation , instead of worth and merit , were the means to win recog- nition and advancement . The court was a nest of luxury , lechery , 63 THE ...
... soldiers , and unctuous prelates paid her homage and reached high station . Flattery and adulation , instead of worth and merit , were the means to win recog- nition and advancement . The court was a nest of luxury , lechery , 63 THE ...
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... soldiers of the line were of the common people . The gulf between them was wide and deep . A private soldier , no matter how great might be his merit , could never expect promotion ; born of the people he died in the ranks . The ...
... soldiers of the line were of the common people . The gulf between them was wide and deep . A private soldier , no matter how great might be his merit , could never expect promotion ; born of the people he died in the ranks . The ...
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Charles Franklin Warwick. excess of the amount paid to the soldiers of the entire army . Du Châtelet , colonel of the French Guards , in order to make an example of those soldiers who evinced a revolutionary spirit , sent eleven of them ...
Charles Franklin Warwick. excess of the amount paid to the soldiers of the entire army . Du Châtelet , colonel of the French Guards , in order to make an example of those soldiers who evinced a revolutionary spirit , sent eleven of them ...
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... soldier cut out his heart and it was carried on a pike followed by a wild and frenzied mob . In the evening it was taken into a café in the Palais Royal by the savages who had borne it aloft , and placed on a table beside them while ...
... soldier cut out his heart and it was carried on a pike followed by a wild and frenzied mob . In the evening it was taken into a café in the Palais Royal by the savages who had borne it aloft , and placed on a table beside them while ...
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... soldiers with the wildest enthusiasm and ac- clamation . Heated with wine and aroused by the strains of ravishing music , the banqueters with oaths and drawn swords pledged their loy- alty to the royal family . In the excitement of the ...
... soldiers with the wildest enthusiasm and ac- clamation . Heated with wine and aroused by the strains of ravishing music , the banqueters with oaths and drawn swords pledged their loy- alty to the royal family . In the excitement of the ...
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Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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Populære avsnitt
Side 45 - I have loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile...
Side 287 - Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer.
Side 99 - 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.
Side 189 - Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws.
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Side 346 - I can answer that the authors of this plan of calumny were first the Duke of York, Mr. Pitt, and every tyrant who was armed against us. Who afterwards ? Ah ! I dare not name them at this moment and in this place. I cannot resolve to tear off...
Side 268 - ... must rally the people. Everything was prepared for subjecting the people to the yoke of the middle class ; that class has triumphed at Marseilles, at Bordeaux, at Lyons ; it would have triumphed at Paris, but for the present insurrection. This insurrection must continue. The people must ally itself with the Convention, and the Convention must make use of the people. The insurrection must spread gradually on the same plan ; the lower classes must be paid to remain in the houses ; they must be...
Side 201 - My child," said the captive, taking him on his lap, " look well at me ; when you are a man, you can say that you saw Vergniaud, the founder of the republic, at the most glorious period and in the most splendid costume he ever wore — that in which he suffered the persecution of wretches, and in which he prepared to die for liberty ! " The child remembered these words, and repeated them, fifty years afterward, to the author of this work.
Side 287 - Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a great Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people.
Side 191 - Dansons la carmagnole , Vive le son, vive le son, Dansons la carmagnole, Vive le son du canon.