1793 and 1853, in Three LettersJames Ridgway, 1853 - 140 páginas |
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Página 21 - In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. They had done their business for us as rivals, in a way in which twenty Ramilies or Blenheims could never have done it.
Página 32 - ... on those who shall deserve it the most exemplary and ever memorable avenging punishments, by giving up the city of Paris to military execution, and exposing it to total destruction ; and the rebels who shall be guilty of illegal resistance shall suffer the punishments which they shall have deserved.
Página 45 - If France is really desirous of maintaining friendship and peace with England, she must show herself disposed to renounce her views of aggression and aggrandizement, and to confine herself within her own territory, without insulting other governments, without •disturbing their tranquillity, without violating their rights.
Página 44 - have received, Sir, from you a note, in which, " styling yourself minister plenipotentiary of France, " you communicate to me, as the King's secretary " of state, the instructions which you state to have " yourself received from the Executive Council of " the French republic. You are not ignorant, that " since the unhappy events of the 10th August, the " King has thought proper to suspend all official
Página 57 - A spirit of tumult and disorder (the natural consequence of such practices) has shown itself in acts of riot and insurrection, which required the interposition of a military force in support of the civil magistrate. The industry...
Página 135 - This will put an end to the supererogatory commiseration which is sometimes lavished upon them, and turn their attention to the defects of their own social condition. I have travelled much, and always with an eye to the state of the great majority, who everywhere constitute the toiling base of the social pyramid ; and I confess I have arrived at the conclusion that there is no country where so much is required to be done before the mass of the people become what it is pretended they are, what they...
Página 44 - King has thought proper to suspend all official " communication with France." The rest of the letter repels with little ceremony the advances of the French minister, and subjects his pleas and excuses to a cold and incredulous criticism. It reiterates the complaints respecting the Decree of the 19th November, the opening of the Scheldt, and the violation of the territory of Holland. " If
Página 43 - The national convention never meant that the French republic should favour insurrections, should espouse the quarrels of a few seditious persons, or in a word, should endeavour to excite disturbances in any neutral or friendly country whatever.
Página 135 - ... Over great tracts of country there does not at present exist a single school." J And concludes his last chapter thus: "Yes, here, in such a country as this, where the aristocracy is richer and more powerful than that of any other country in the world, the poor are more depressed, more pauperized, more numerous in comparison to the other classes, more irreligious, and very much worse educated than the poor of any other European nation, solely excepting uncivilized Russia and Turkey, enslaved Italy,...
Página 140 - ... husband lay a festering corpse by her side. Into the midst of these horrors did our heroes penetrate, dragging the dead from the living with their own hands, raising the head of famishing infancy, and pouring nourishment into parched lips, from which shot fever-flames more deadly than a volley of musketry.