Travels in France, During the Years 1814-15: Comprising a Residence at Paris During the Stay of the Allied Armies, and at Aix, at the Period of the Landing of Bonaparte ...Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersy, 1816 |
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Strana 254 - The coach generally holds from ten to twelve persons, and with all this is sufficiently roomy. — The moment you enter you are on terms of the most perfect familiarity with the whole set of your travelling companions. In an instant every tongue is at work, and every individual bent upon making themselves happy for the moment, and contributing to the happiness of their fellow travellers.
Strana 175 - the opportunity of providing the least supply . ** for the declining years of life, and the gloomy •* confinement of a work-house, or the scanty " pittance of parochial help, are their only re
Strana 144 - Je vous ai appelés autour de moi pour faire le bien : vous avez fait le mal. Vous avez parmi vous des gens dévoués à l'Angleterre , à l'étranger, qui correspondent avec le prince régent par l'entremise de l'avocat Desèze.
Strana 261 - Leur badinage," says Montesquieu, " naturellement fait pour les toilettes, semble etre provenu a former le caractere general de la nation. On badine au conseil, on badine a la tete d'une armee, on badine avec un ambassadeur.
Strana 218 - English law on 150 different offences, is now in France confined to the very highest crimes only, the number of which does not exceed twelve. " A minute attention has been paid to the different degrees of guilt in the commission of the same crime ; and according to these, the punishments are as accurately proportioned as the cases will permit. One species of capital punishment has been ordained, instead of that multitude of cruel and barbarous deaths which were marshalled in terrible array along...
Strana 169 - J'aurais pu avoir une escorte de trois mille hommes ; je l'ai refusée préférant me confier à la loyauté française. Je n'ai pas eu à me plaindre de cette confiance depuis Fontainebleau jusqu'à Avignon, mais depuis cette ville jusqu'ici, j'ai été insulté, et j'ai couru de sérieux dangers.
Strana 239 - The better classes of the inhabitants of the cities, whether the traders and manufacturers, or the boHrgeoise of France, are those who •were the most decided enemies of Bonaparte : but let us look how their arm is weakened and palsied by the situation of their property.
Strana 16 - C'est la maison de Dieu et la porte du ciel. Jacob se levant donc le matin, prit la pierre qu'il avait mise sous sa...
Strana 175 - ... curiosity. His life is one unwearied course of hardy exertion, and persevering toil. The vigour of his youth is exhausted by labour ; and what are the hopes and consolations of his age ? Sickness may deprive him of the opportunity of providing the least supply for the closing years of life ; and the gloomy confinement of a workhouse, or the scanty pittance of parochial help, is his last and only resource. By his condition may be estimated the prosperity of a nation ; the real opulence, strength,...
Strana 161 - Ma chère amie, à la bataille de Dresde, il ya trois jours, j'ai eu les deux jambes emportées d'un boulet de canon. Ce coquin de Bonaparte ;est toujours heureux. On m'a fait l'amputation aussi bien que possible. Quoique l'armée ait fait un mouvement rétrograde, ce n'est nullement par revers, mais par décousu, et pour se rapprocher du général Blucher. Excuse mon griffonnage. Je t'aime et t'embrasse de tout mon cœur ; je charge Rapatel de finir.