Letters from Paris, During the Summer of 1791, Volume 2Printrd [sic] for J. Debrett, ... and W. Clarke, 1793 - 298 pagine |
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Pagina 257 - Their heads were both of one bignesse, but different in phisnomy; the belly of the one joyned with the posterior part of the other, and their faces looked both one way, as if the one had carried the other on his...
Pagina 267 - Chrétiens , au nom du Tout-Puissant, Faites-moi l'aumône en passant : L'aveugle qui vous la demande Ignorera qui la fera ; Mais Dieu , qui voit tout, le verra, Je le prierai qu'il vous la rende.
Pagina 292 - ... denied, that the principle on which those services were performed, was self, and his own particular aggrandisement ; that every other consideration was secondary in his mind ; and that he had ambition enough to wish, and to endeavour, to be the first man in the kingdom, and resolution enough to stick at nothing to procure him this pre-eminence ; — affecting the maxim of a tyrant borrowed from a poet, " that if wrong and robbery were excusable, it was on the score of empire.
Pagina 258 - ... their age, which was but thirty-six days. Their feet were proportionably made like to the foot of a camel, round, and cloven in the midst. They received their food with an insatiable desire, and continually mourned with a pitiful noise : when one slept the other waked, which was a strange disagreement in nature. The mother of them bought dearly that birth with the loss of her life ; and, as I was afterwards informed, these lived but a small time after we had seen them. 12. Ser. Fulvius Flaccus...
Pagina 293 - ... of the national guards, who were to revenge the king's murder. The field would then have been open for Lafayette, to have proclaimed himself protector. Two things are, it is said, certain, that the duke of Orleans was at Versailles on the fifth, in disguise, and that Lafayette, after having promised to protect the king, retired to a corner incognito, on a pretext of writing to the national assembly."!
Pagina 256 - Which unnaturall child being brought, I was amazed in that sight, to behold the deformity of nature ; for below the middle part there was but one body, and above the middle, there was two living soules, each one separated from another with severall members. Their heads were both of one...
Pagina 283 - ... they past nat a hundred in nombre : they sayd howe the noble men of the realme of Fraunce, knyghtes and squyers, shamed the realme, and that it shulde be a great welth to dystroy them all, and eche of them sayd it was true, and sayd all with one voyce, Shame have he that dothe nat his power to distroy all the gentylmen of the realme. Thus they gathered togyder without any other counsayle, and without any armure, savyng with staves and knyves, and so went to the house of a knyght dwellyng therby,...
Pagina 280 - Parys, suche as were of his opynion, and all they ware hattes of one colour, to thentent to be knowen.
Pagina 286 - ... were fain to fly away to Meaux in Brie, as well the Duchess of Normandy and the Duchess of Orleans as divers other ladies and damosels, or else they had been violated and after murdered. Also there were a certain of the same ungracious people between Paris and Noyon and between Paris and Soissons, and all about in the land of Coucy, in the county of Valois, in the bishopric of Laon, Noyon and Soissons. There were burnt and destroyed more than a hundred castles and good houses of knights and squires...