Historical View of the French Revolution: From Its Earliest Indications to the Flight of the King in 1791H. G. Bohn, 1864 - 621 pages |
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... wished to bury . Yet why ? Thou , thou alone dost live . Thou livest ! I feel this truth perpetually impressed upon me at the present period of the year , .when my teaching is suspended , when labour grows fatiguing , and the season B ...
... wished to bury . Yet why ? Thou , thou alone dost live . Thou livest ! I feel this truth perpetually impressed upon me at the present period of the year , .when my teaching is suspended , when labour grows fatiguing , and the season B ...
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... wished also to have his elect ! Such confidence , and such love ! and yet , all betrayed ! That well - beloved king was hardhearted towards his people . Search everywhere , in books and pictures , contemplate him in his portraits not a ...
... wished also to have his elect ! Such confidence , and such love ! and yet , all betrayed ! That well - beloved king was hardhearted towards his people . Search everywhere , in books and pictures , contemplate him in his portraits not a ...
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... wished to immortalize her . He permits the Academy to award the prize of virtue to Madame Legros , -to crown her- on the singular condition , that the crown should not be required . At length , in 1784 , they force from Louis XVI . the ...
... wished to immortalize her . He permits the Academy to award the prize of virtue to Madame Legros , -to crown her- on the singular condition , that the crown should not be required . At length , in 1784 , they force from Louis XVI . the ...
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... wished to do the same ; but the king , to prevent it from thus assuming an equality with the nobility , preferred to uncover himself . Who would believe that this mad court remembered and regretted the absurd custom of making the Third ...
... wished to do the same ; but the king , to prevent it from thus assuming an equality with the nobility , preferred to uncover himself . Who would believe that this mad court remembered and regretted the absurd custom of making the Third ...
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... wished to have substituted " a notification of the astonishment of the Third- Estate at the absence of the other orders , of the impossibility of conferring elsewhere than in a common union , and of the interest and right that every ...
... wished to have substituted " a notification of the astonishment of the Third- Estate at the absence of the other orders , of the impossibility of conferring elsewhere than in a common union , and of the interest and right that every ...
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