| Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de Genlis - 1825 - 404 pagine
...activity, their enthusiasm, their pleasure at seeing the fall of that terrible monument of tyranny,| these avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by Providence, and which annihilated with such rapidity. * Under the title of Discours Moraux. — (Author.) t See the Memoirs of Dangeau. — (Author.) \ It... | |
| 1830 - 400 pagine
...activity, their enthusiasm, their pleasure at seeing the fall of that terrible monument of tyranny ; those avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by...this spoke at once to the imagination and the heart." That a scene so animated, so striking, must have made a deep and lasting impression on the minds of... | |
| William Hone - 1830 - 150 pagine
...their avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by Providence, and which annihilated with astonishing rapidity the work of many centuries — all this spoke at once to the imagination and to the heart. No one had been more shocked than I at the excesses committed at the taking of the Bastille,... | |
| George Newenham Wright - 1847 - 822 pagine
...their enthusiasm, their delight at seeing the fall of that terrible monument of tyranny ; — these avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by Providence,...the work of many centuries : — all this spoke at oiice to the imagination and the heart." Such an initiation was hardly equitable, certainly not wise,... | |
| Louis Philippe (king of the French.) - 1848 - 72 pagine
...activity, their enthusiasm, their pleasure at seeing the fall of that terrible monument of tyranny ; those avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by...which annihilated with such rapidity the work of many centuries—all this spoke at once to the imagination, and to the heart." When the Due de Chartres... | |
| Jacob Abbott - 1901 - 416 pagine
...activity, their enthusiasm, their delight at seeing the fall of that terrible monument of tyranny — these avenging hands, which seemed consecrated by Providence,...this spoke at once to the imagination and the heart." When the Duke of Chartres was informed The Duke of Chartres joius the Jacobin Cl ib. that the Assembly... | |
| |