The Female Revolutionary Plutarch: Containing Biographical, Historical, and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters, and Anecdotes, Volume 3J. & W. Smith, 1808 |
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Pagina 70 - Frenchmen tpld their Prince, that by pressing his niece to his bosom, he should reward, instead of resenting, the first act of her life which she ever concealed from him. This young Princess had, in the dungeons of the Temple, early learned to know the little value of either jewels, rank, or...
Pagina 97 - I£ he comes alone, I shall never recall the error of a moment, and the fault of youth. Faithful services, and the conduct which he owes to himself, and to his name, will regain him all my kindness.
Pagina 70 - At her marriage, the Duchess of Angouleme had received from her first cousins, the Emperor and Empress of Germany, a box of jewels ; and without informing any person of her intention, she sent for some Jews, and obtained upon these jewels a sum of money sufficient, not only for her uncle's travelling expenses, but to provide for the immediate wants of her countrymen at Mittau.
Pagina 203 - To-day on a throne, to-morrow in a. prison :" « Such," observes madame Roland, " is the fate of virtue in revolutionary times. Enlightened men, who have pointed- out its rights, are, by a nation weary of oppression, first called into authority. But it is not possible that they should maintain their places: the ambitious, eager to take advantage o£.
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Pagina 37 - God," exclaimed the princess, " do not undeceive these men ! Is it not better that they should shed my blood than that of my sister ? " The self-devotion of this act is certainly admirable ; but its morality sinks far into the shade, beside the resplendent truthfulness of Jeanie Deans. It was noble to offer her life to save a sister, but not right to violate the law of truth for that purpose. The answer of the lost...
Pagina 133 - ... condition that we should be in the same chamber, and that he should only quit the prison with me. This servant was Bury. I consulted him about it ; he answered that he would not leave me. My parcels and books were then lightly examined, and I was conducted into a large room, the furniture of which consisted of two beds, two tables, the bottom of a chest of drawers, and three straw chairs. It was cold ; but a jailer made us a good fire, and brought me wood in abundance. At...
Pagina 186 - I can lay my hand on my heart, and say, that the part of this business I undertook, was from no other motive than that of rescuing a beautiful suffering royalist from distress ; and though, at that time, not...
Pagina 135 - Mocha coflee; this was Bury's dinner, with the exception of the coffee and the fruit, which he chose to reserve for me.
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