The French revolution, sketches1799 - 80 páginas |
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... lower orders , by encou- raging amongst them habits of smuggling . Nearly three thousand four hundred persons , comprising men , women , and children , were annually committed to prison for contraband dealings in this article , so ...
... lower orders , by encou- raging amongst them habits of smuggling . Nearly three thousand four hundred persons , comprising men , women , and children , were annually committed to prison for contraband dealings in this article , so ...
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... lower orders of France , there was a total absence of that re- ligious spirit which might have infused fresh vigour and revived the decaying energies of the country . The Roman Catholic religion was that established by law , and its ...
... lower orders of France , there was a total absence of that re- ligious spirit which might have infused fresh vigour and revived the decaying energies of the country . The Roman Catholic religion was that established by law , and its ...
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... order . Although the lower class of the French clergy were frequently men of moral lives , yet , as a body , they ... lower orders of the clergy were in general free from the cor- ruptions of infidelity and gross immorality ; but even ...
... order . Although the lower class of the French clergy were frequently men of moral lives , yet , as a body , they ... lower orders of the clergy were in general free from the cor- ruptions of infidelity and gross immorality ; but even ...
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... lower orders were grossly ignorant , not one in fifty being able to read . The morality of the nation was also at the lowest ebb , while of evangelical religion scarcely any traces were to be found . Neckar's friends warned him of the ...
... lower orders were grossly ignorant , not one in fifty being able to read . The morality of the nation was also at the lowest ebb , while of evangelical religion scarcely any traces were to be found . Neckar's friends warned him of the ...
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... lower orders , joined by some disaffected troops , attacked the Bas- tile , a fortress of scarcely less antiquity than the Tower of London , and which , during the reign of Louis xv . and the earlier monarchs of France , had witnessed ...
... lower orders , joined by some disaffected troops , attacked the Bas- tile , a fortress of scarcely less antiquity than the Tower of London , and which , during the reign of Louis xv . and the earlier monarchs of France , had witnessed ...
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afterwards amidst amongst arms arrested atrocities attached Bastile blood body Calonne cause Champ de Mars CHAPTER Charlotte Corday church clergy Collot d'Herbois condemned constitution convention course court crimes cruelty Danton death declaration decreed deputies displayed doctrines dreadful effect endeavoured exclaimed execution followed formed France French revolution Girondists guillotine happiness head heart honour hour human hundred infidelity insult Jacobin Jacobin club king king's La Vendée labours ladies leaders liberty Llongwi Louis XVI lower orders Madame Madame Roland Marat measures ment metropolis Mirabeau misery moderate monarch morals National Assembly Neckar nobility occasion palace Paris party passions peasantry period political popular principle prison punishment queen racter reign replied republic Revolutionary Tribunal Robespierre scaffold scene sentiments spectators spirit terror thee Thionville thou thousand throne tiers états tion trial troops Turgot unhappy Vendean Vendée vention Versailles victims violence wickedness writer young
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Página 5 - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
Página 9 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Página 160 - His last words were to Samson the Headsman himself: "Thou wilt show my head to the people; it is worth showing.
Página 61 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Página 135 - Job xxi. 15. They count him worthy neither to be loved nor feared They dare not behave with that slight and disregard towards one of their...
Página 136 - LORD encampeth round about them that fear him : and delivereth them. 0 taste and see that the LORD is good : blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Página 181 - But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?
Página 52 - If for my consolation Monseigneur would grant me, for the sake of God and the Most Blessed Trinity, that I could have news of my dear wife; were it only her name on a card, to show that she is alive! It were the greatest consolation I could receive; and I should forever bless the greatness of Monseigneur.
Página 22 - ... righteousness exalteth a nation, but" that "sin is a reproach to any people.
Página 28 - God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day; but she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.