The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volumen 1Harper & brothers, 1876 - 473 páginas |
Índice
| 17 | |
| 24 | |
| 33 | |
| 42 | |
| 66 | |
| 76 | |
| 87 | |
| 97 | |
| 223 | |
| 234 | |
| 247 | |
| 257 | |
| 270 | |
| 287 | |
| 299 | |
| 310 | |
| 107 | |
| 119 | |
| 129 | |
| 141 | |
| 155 | |
| 167 | |
| 176 | |
| 184 | |
| 194 | |
| 202 | |
| 210 | |
| 331 | |
| 341 | |
| 352 | |
| 369 | |
| 395 | |
| 404 | |
| 415 | |
| 430 | |
| 442 | |
| 463 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
Antoinette's Arneth Assembly authority Baron de Breteuil brother cause character Cloth conduct confidence Constitution Count d'Artois courage court danger daughter dauphin death declared desire dignity distress Duc d'Orléans Duke duty embassador emperor enemies excited expressed favor Fayette fear feeling Feuillet de Conches force France French friends gave Girondins Gustave III Half Calf happiness heart History honor hope husband influence insults Jacobins JOHN S. C. ABBOTT king and queen king's La Fayette ladies letter Louis Louis XV Madame de Campan Madame de Polignac Madame du Barri Madame Roland Marck Maria Teresa Marie Antoinette marriage ment Mercy minister Mirabeau Montmédy mother National Guard Necker never nobles occasion once palace Paris party passed present princes princess proof received refused regarded replied resolution rioters royal family seemed showed sister sovereign thing throne tion took Versailles Vienna views whole wholly wish
Pasajes populares
Página 241 - To deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear ; and which he ought always most seriously to consider.
Página 241 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Página 116 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 243 - XV. made them esteemed in England, by people not well informed, as the most prominent features of the despotism of France. They were certainly carried to an excess hardly credible ; to the length of being sold, with blanks, to be filled up with names at the pleasure of the purchaser ; who was thus able, in the gratification of private revenge, to tear a man from the bosom of his family, and bury him in a dungeon, where he would exist forgotten, and die unknown...
Página 475 - ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. The History of Napoleon Bonaparte. By JOHN SC ABBOTT. With Maps, Woodcuts, and Portraits on Steel. 2 vols., Svo, Cloth, $10 00. ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA ; or, Interesting Anecdotes and Remarkable Conversations of the Emperor during the Five and a Half Years of hia Captivity.
Página 269 - I have accustomed them all to regard 'yes' or 'no,' once uttered by me, as irrevocable; but I always give them reasons for my decision, suitable to their ages, to prevent their thinking that my decision comes from ill-humor. My son can not read, and he is very slow at learning; but he is too giddy to apply. He has no pride in his heart, and I am very anxious that he should continue to feel so. Our children always learn soon enough what they are. He is very fond of his sister, and has a good heart....