Annals of the French Revolution: Or, A Chronological Account of Its Principal Events; with a Variety of Anecdotes and Characters Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 2S. Low, and sold by T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 - France |
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Page 278 - I swear to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king ; and to maintain with all my powers the constitution decreed by the national assembly, and accepted by the king.
Page 412 - ... have thought us very, very English. The discovery of the grand elixir which would efface pain and disease out of the list of human calamities could not have given a man of humanity more pleasure than some persons felt here at the prospect...
Page 522 - Repeat to your fellow- citizens, that it would have been my desire to speak to them all, as I now speak to you. Say to them, that their king is their father, their brother, their friend, that he cannot be contented without their prosperity, great without their glory, rich without their property, nor unhappy without they are afflicted."* The day of vast and universal expectation at last arrived. The king, the court, the clergy, the national assembly, a deputation of military from the eighty-three...
Page 34 - ... Misfortune accords it never. Why, gentlemen, it was but the other day, that, in reference to a ridiculous commotion at the Palais-Royal, — a Quixotic insurrection, which never had any importance save in the feeble imaginations or perverse designs of certain faithless men, — you heard these wild words : * Catiline is at the gates of Rome, and yet you deliberate ! » And verily there was neither a Catiline nor a Rome ; neither perils nor factions around you.
Page 485 - ... of each, forming a whole out of them, which he arranged and enriched in his manner with fome pompous phrafes, and then fet out for the affembly. His fellow-labourers, who got there before him, recognized each the particular paflage he had...
Page 466 - Marquess de Biancourt, a member of the assembly, and asked to be paid his twelve livres. " What do you mean by your twelve livres ?" said M. de Biancourt, " I do not know you, and how do I owe you any thing?
Page 466 - ... and which formed the train of the Baron de Clootz, was entirely composed of vagabonds and foreign servants, hired at twelve livres a head. The secret was betrayed by an orthographical error. One of the vagabonds of the deputation went the next day to the Marquis de Biancourt, a member of the assembly, and asked to be paid his twelve livres. " What do you mean by your twelve livres?
Page 484 - His attendance at the aflcmbly, and the parties of pleafure, or rather of immoderate debauch, in which he was perpetually engaged, left him no time to write them, even had his head been fufficiently at liberty to compofe them. He had at command a certain number of writers, of more wit than fortune, who, flattered by his patronage, encouraged by his promifes, and a (lifted at times by trifling fums from his purfe, did themfelves the honour of working for him.
Page 486 - ... advantage from them. Charlemagne could hardly fign his name, and Cardinal Richelieu was an indifferent writer; yet the one was the greateft King, and the other the ableft Minifter France ever had.
Page 72 - Majefty, threw himfelf on his knees, and told him, that having on his way to Paris met a large body of .people, armed with pikes, guns, and bludgeons, he had returned with the utmoft fpeed to inform the King of it, adding, " I befeech your *