Martin's History of France: The Decline of the French Monarchy, Nide 1

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Walker, Fuller,, 1866
 

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Sivu 387 - ... the officers do so too ; in short, 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.2 I am glad of it ; the rest of Europe will be the quieter, and have time to recover.
Sivu 396 - Wherever you are, inform yourself minutely of, and attend particularly to, the affairs of France ; they grow serious, and, in my opinion, will grow more and more so every day. The King is despised, and I do not wonder at it ; but he has brought it about, to be hated at the same time, which seldom happens to the same man.
Sivu 524 - ... the moment they are at peace with all the world. . 3". The two kings extend their guaranty to the King of the Two Sicilies, and the infant Duke of Parma, on condition that thefe two princes guaranty the dominions of their Moll Chriftian and Catholic Majefties.
Sivu 371 - Laws, taken in the broadest meaning, are the necessary relations deriving from the nature of things; and in this sense, all beings have their laws: the divinity has its laws, the material world has its laws, the intelligences superior to man have their laws, the beasts have their laws, man has his laws.
Sivu 326 - It is only necessary to lay aside the most stupid prejudice, to admit that two things are chiefly to be desired for the good of the State : one, that all the citizens shall be equal among themselves; the other, that each shall be the son of his works.
Sivu 380 - Whatever alms may be given to a man who is naked in the streets, this will not fulfil the obligations of the State, which owes to all the citizens an assured subsistence, food, and proper clothing, and a mode of life which is not contrary to health.
Sivu 6 - ... near Paris, where for eleven hundred years kings of France had been buried. It was more like a festival than a funeral. " I saw little tents," he records, " set up along the road, in which people drank, sang, laughed. The sentiments of the citizens of Paris had passed into the minds of the populace. The Jesuit, Le Tellier, was the principal cause of this universal joy. I heard several spectators say that the torches which lighted the procession ought to be used for setting fire to the houses...
Sivu 541 - ... resources, sprang directly from the sea? The policy in which the English government carried on the war is shown by a speech of Pitt, the master-spirit during its course, though he lost office before bringing it to an end. Condemning the Peace of 1763, made by his political opponent, he said: " France is chiefly, if not exclusively, formidable to us as a maritime and commercial power. What we gain in this respect is valuable to us, above all, through the injury to her which results from it. You...
Sivu 346 - ... to compliment him. Our civil wars under Charles VI. were cruel; those of the League were abominable ; that of the Fronde was ridiculous.
Sivu 378 - It is true that in democracies the people seem to act as they please; but political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom. In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

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