Martin's History of France: The Decline of the French Monarchy, Volume 1Walker, Fuller, 1866 - France |
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Page 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.
Page 71 - W. Coxe, Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon (1700—1788, 2d edition, London, 1815).
Page 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.
Page 87 - And a few days after, in a letter to Stanhope, " I owe to you even the place I occupy, which I ardently desire to use according to your wishes ; that is, for the service of His Britannic Majesty, whose interests will always be sacred to me.
Page 243 - ... became the soul of a new confederacy, which again involved the empire in war, and endangered the hereditary possessions of the house of Austria. With his usual secresy he formed the project of a convention, which was signed on the 13th of May, 1744, at Frankfort on the Main, with the emperor, France, the elector Palatine, and the king of Sweden as landgrave of Hesse. He beheld with alarm the rapid progress of prince Charles in Alsace, and seized this critical opportunity, when the Austrian dominions...
Page 358 - God has given us a principle of universal reason, as he has given plumage to the birds, and fur to the bears
Page 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.
Page 36 - History of France, by Henri Martin, translated by Mary L. Booth, vol. xv., p. 36. t Duhautchamp, tv, p. 91. Recueil d' Arrests, p. 11 et seq. draw their waters. The only condition attached to the grant was that the company should import, during the period of the concession, six thousand whites and...
Page 388 - Sevres porcelains, more or less, would not greatly have altered the situation of France. It was her misfortune to be slumbering in a fatal ease. Voltaire has said : " All Europe never saw happier days than followed the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, until toward the year 1755. Commerce flourished from St. Petersburg to Cadiz ; the fine arts were everywhere in honor. A mutual confidence existed between all nations. Europe resembled a large family, reunited after its dissensions.
Page 519 - ... having betrayed the interests of the King, the State, and the Company," and for " abuse of authority, vexatious, and extortions.