The Four Civilizations of the World: An Historical RetrospectS. Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875 - 416 páginas |
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... March , the sale of the church property was voted to the extent of 400 millions of francs ; in April , paper money , called assignats * -from the church lands being assigned as security was created ; and in June , all Titles of Nobility ...
... March , the sale of the church property was voted to the extent of 400 millions of francs ; in April , paper money , called assignats * -from the church lands being assigned as security was created ; and in June , all Titles of Nobility ...
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... march about France , to shoot down the opponents of the Revolu- tion . Committees were instituted in every village to receive denunciations , and the guillotine soon disposed of the accused . Absolute power , far greater than the ...
... march about France , to shoot down the opponents of the Revolu- tion . Committees were instituted in every village to receive denunciations , and the guillotine soon disposed of the accused . Absolute power , far greater than the ...
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... March , 1794. Of all his brother - assassins , there was only one left between him and that Supremacy he steadily pursued . Thiers , in his " French Revolution , " attributes to Robespierre these reflections : - " If Danton were ...
... March , 1794. Of all his brother - assassins , there was only one left between him and that Supremacy he steadily pursued . Thiers , in his " French Revolution , " attributes to Robespierre these reflections : - " If Danton were ...
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... march of the Revolution was arrested . In reviewing its career , it may be said that from July , 1789 , when insurrection broke out in Paris , down to 1792 , the Revolution achieved immense benefits for France . All the Reforms that her ...
... march of the Revolution was arrested . In reviewing its career , it may be said that from July , 1789 , when insurrection broke out in Paris , down to 1792 , the Revolution achieved immense benefits for France . All the Reforms that her ...
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... March , 1795 , and transported ; the Sections of Paris were disarmed ; the churches restored to public worship . Later in the year the young daughter of Louis XVI . , afterwards Duchess of Angoulême , was given to the Austrians in ...
... March , 1795 , and transported ; the Sections of Paris were disarmed ; the churches restored to public worship . Later in the year the young daughter of Louis XVI . , afterwards Duchess of Angoulême , was given to the Austrians in ...
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Página 364 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 4 - Round Table. With Biographical Introduction. The Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend. By Sir THOMAS BROWNE, Knt. Ballad Poetry of the Affections. By ROBERT BUCHANAN. Coleridge's Christabel, and other Imaginative Poems. With Preface by ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE. Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims.
Página 386 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
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Página 326 - We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
Página 203 - THE State of Monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for Kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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