France for the Lst Seven Years

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Strona 188 - I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous, of my enemies.
Strona 204 - Private persons and property shall be equally respected. The inhabitants and in general all individuals who shall be in the capital, shall continue to enjoy their rights and liberties without being disturbed 'or called to account, either as to the situations which they hold or may have held, or as to their conduct or political opinions.
Strona 26 - At this he appeared displeased, and after turning about, I beheld his body rise until he sat upright in the bed, when nothing could exceed my astonishment, on viewing a figure much taller, from the head to the bottom of the back, than the Dauphin could possibly have displayed from what I had seen of him only six months before ; my wonder, however, increased on beholding him thrust his legs from beneath the covering, from which I was enabled to form an estimate of the height of the figure before me,...
Strona 188 - Exposed to the factions which divide my country, and to the enmity of the great powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself on the hospitality (litwatty, to seat myself on the hearths) of the British people.
Strona 26 - Dauphin — when he hastily demanded my reason for harbouring such a doubt. I then explained my having seen the youth six months before, and the absolute impossibility of such a change in stature taking place within so short a period. To which remark I received the following singular reply : ' Sick children, citizen, will sometimes shoot up very fast ; but I advise you to go home and keep a still tongue in your mouth, lest you should grow shorter by the head.
Strona 236 - It is, besides, to be wished, as well for the happiness of France as of the world, that, if the French people are not already convinced that Europe is too strong for them, they may be made to feel that, however extensive for a time their temporary and partial advantages over one or more of the powers of Europe may be, the day of retribution must at length come.
Strona 135 - ... be impotent. Frenchmen ! my will is that of the people — my rights are theirs — my honour, my glory, my happiness, can never be separated from the honour, glory, and happiness of France.
Strona 151 - They know that this coalition is insatiable. After having devoured twelve millions of Poles, twelve millions of Italians, one million of Saxons, and six millions of Belgians, it now wishes to devour the states of the second rank in Germany.
Strona 232 - Talleyrand upon the subject ; explained to him what had passed in conference, and the grounds I had for thinking that the king of the Netherlands had a right to the pictures ; and begged him to state the case to the king, and to ask .his majesty to do me the...
Strona 235 - Allies having not legal possession of the pieces in the Museum, could do no otherwise than restore them to those from whom they had been taken away, contrary to the usages of civilized warfare, during the dreadful period of the French Revolution and the tyranny of Bonaparte. " The conduct of the Allies with...

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