History of France and Normandy: From the Earliest Times to the Revolution of 1848Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1852 - 444 páginas |
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Página 63 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Página 28 - All was prepared — the fire, the sword, the men To wield them in their terrible array. The army, like a lion from his den, March'd forth with nerve and sinews bent to slay, — A human Hydra, issuing from its fen To breathe destruction on its winding way.
Página 266 - Catholic divines, and probably contemplated the being one day reconciled to their church. But an event now occurred which compelled him to decide without delay. In 1593, the states-general were assembled, and proceeded so far as to offer the crown to the Spanish Infanta, on the condition that she should marry a French Catholic prince. The young duke of Guise was fixed on as her future husband. Under these circumstances, Henry, on July 25, 1593, made a public abjuration of Protestantism.
Página 328 - This pow'r has praise, that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Página 166 - ... he was bound down in a cart and conveyed back to Mans. He remained in a state of frenzy for some months, and then recovered his senses ; but the expedition to Bretagne was not resumed. In 1393 another fatal accident brought on a return of the king's disorder. The circumstance is thus related : — At the marriage of one of the queen's attendants, the king and five young noblemen of the court agreed to appear in the character of savages, in what the English called a disguisement.
Página 392 - FAREWELL to the Land, where the gloom of my Glory Arose and o'ershadowed the earth with her name — She abandons me now, — but the page of her story, The brightest or blackest, is filled with my fame.
Página 324 - She presented her son to the several nobles one by one. They all swore to defend and protect him. At last they drew their swords, and cried out unanimously, " Moriamur pro rege nostro Maria Theresa " — Let us die for our king Maria Theresa.
Página 399 - The powers consequently declare, that Napoleon Buonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that, as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Página 298 - There shall they rot — Ambition's honour'd fools! Yes, Honour decks the turf that wraps their clay! Vain Sophistry! in these behold the tools, The broken tools, that tyrants cast away By myriads, when they dare to pave their way \V ith human hearts — to what? — a dream alone.
Página 210 - What this prince also said in vindication of his economy, will always be praised. " I had rather see my courtiers laugh at my avarice, than my people weep on account of my expenses.