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Page ii - ART. Second Series. Containing The Philosophy of Art in Italy ; The Philosophy of Art in the Netherlands; The Philosophy of Art in Greece. NOTES ON ENGLAND. With Portrait. NOTES ON PARIS. A TOUR THROUGH THE PYRENEES. (The Same. Illustrated by Gustave Dore.
Page 85 - ... unhappily, exists to a degree scarcely to be paralleled, and such is the horror and apprehension, which licentious societies have universally inspired, that there is some reason to believe the great mass of French population would consider even despotism as a blessing, if accompanied with security to person and property, such as is experienced under the worst governments in Europe.
Page 220 - ... constituted. The average rate of wages for each individual may be fixed at 10s. per week ; this, of course, includes the children, who in all instances form a great proportion of the hands. This rate of payment is very nearly the same as that which was obtained in 1816. The usual hours of labour are from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the evening, half an hour being allowed for breakfast, one hour for dinner, and half an hour in the afternoon.
Page 148 - Turkeys to be knocked down by Brick-Bats, was a little more than they had Patience to bear, so that without waiting for Orders they fired and killed a dozen or two of the ragged Regiment: the rest ran off like lusty fellows. If the Militia had waited for Orders they might I fancy have been all knocked down before they received any.
Page 181 - They are in confinement in a certain domicile, and in a few days the soil of liberty will be purged of their presence.
Page 87 - Answer to the Republican catechism. What is God ? What are the people ? What is a King ? " The other, with a contrite air, a nasal voice, and winding himself about like a harlequin, answered, " God is nature ; the people are the poor ; a King is a lion, — a tiger, — an elephant — who tears to pieces, devours and crushes the poor people to death.
Page 185 - ... the revolutionary government." September, indeed, is the beginning of it, the abridgment of it and the type ; they will not do otherwise or better in the best days of the guillotine. Only, as they are as yet poorly supplied with tools, they are obliged to use pikes instead of the guillotine, and, as diffidence is not yet entirely gone, the chiefs conceal themselves behind manoeuvrings. Nevertheless, we can track them, take them in the act, and we possess their autographs; they planned, commanded,...
Page 191 - Look here, citizen, do you, too, want to set us to sleep? Suppose that those cursed Prussian and Austrian beggars were in Paris, would they pick out the guilty? Wouldn't they strike right and left, the same as the Swiss did on the loth of August? Very well, I can't make speeches, but I don't set anybody to sleep. I say, I am the father of a family — I have a wife and five children that I mean to leave here for the section to look after, while I go and fight the enemy. But I have no idea that while...
Page 27 - pas toute seulle et que le compagnion soit a (ravalier « lu peus ma chaire amie venir voir juger 24 mesieurs « tous si-deven président ou conselier au parlement de « Paris et de Toulouse. Je t'ainvite a prendre quelque « choge aven de venir parcheque nous naurons pas fini « de 3 hurres. Je t'embrase ma chère amie et épouge.
Page 167 - he saved the Swiss in the Palais Bourbon"; accordingly, "he and the Swiss must be hung to-day." — In these minds turned topsy-turvy, the actual, palpable truth gives way to its opposite ; "the attack was not begun by them; the order to sound the tocsin came from the palace; it is the palace which was besieging the nation, and not the nation which was besieging the palace.