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Page 256 - Frenchmen, give to the world the example Paris has given to France. Prepare yourselves, by order and confidence in yourselves, for the institutions which are about to be given to you.
Page 253 - ... mystery over the exact origin of the outbreak. Dark hints have been thrown out of treachery on the part of at least one of the leading Generals at that time. Many have supposed that there existed, in the bosom of the royal family of France itself, a plot to bring about the abdication of Louis Philippe, in favour of his grandson, the Count de Paris, under the regency of the Duchess of Orleans. It is thought that M. Thiers was the leading spirit of this plan, and that all the princes, except the...
Page 248 - Citizens of Paris ! — The King has abdicated in favour of the Count de Paris, with the Duchess of Orleans as Regent. " A General Amnesty. Dissolution of the Chamber. Appeal to the Country.
Page 2 - Romans, but was entirely swallowed up by the sea about the close of the thirteenth century. The present town, which is situated at the distance of a mile and a half from the sea, was built upon an eminence in order to prevent a...
Page 172 - Three standards, with a large quantity of arms and ammunition, fell into the hands of the victors.
Page 63 - Palacky calls him the most learned sovereign of his age. countries. It has been attempted in these notes to give some idea — as far as a limited space allows —of the policy by which Charles strove, and successfully strove, to raise Bohemia to the rank of one of the great Powers of Europe, and at the same time to secure for it a degree of prosperity the country had never enjoyed before. On the other hand, Charles has been very severely criticized by the German historians. The title of
Page 42 - For several days continued attacks have been made upon шу troops, who are under orders to answer them only in case of the roost urgent need, which has in fact already occurred in several places. The party which demands from his majesty an amnesty for the authors of that unexampled deed of crime perpetrated on the Minister of War, Count Latour, and even on his corpse — which, moreover, demands the withdrawal of the troops so shamefully attacked — which made a proposition for the banishment of...
Page 256 - A retrograde Government has been overturned by the heroism of the people of Paris. This Government has fled, leaving behind it traces of blood, which will for ever forbid its return. " The blood of the people has flowed, as in July ; but, happily, it has not been shed in vain. It has secured a national and popular Government, in accordance with the rights, the progress, and the will of this great and generous people.
Page 257 - Under the popular government now proclaimed by the Provisional Government, every citizen is a magistrate. Frenchmen, give to the world the example which Paris has given to France.
Page 109 - It contains all the weapons, offensive and defensive, of chivalrous warfare ; all the trappings and accoutrements of the tournament and other wild sports of feudal ages. Wealth and skill appear to have been exhausted in the materials and decoration of the armour. The elaborate workmanship in gold, silver, and ivory expended on the smaller arms, as the hilts of swords, stocks of guns...