Letters from Geneva and France: Written During a Residence of Between Two and Three Years, Volumen2Wells and Lilly, 1819 |
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Letters from Geneva and France: Written During a Residence of ..., Volumen1 Francis Kinloch Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 151 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 80 - In Newton this island may boast of having produced the greatest and rarest genius that ever arose for the ornament and instruction of the species. Cautious in admitting no principles but such as were founded on experiment; but resolute to adopt every such principle, however new or unusual...
Página 198 - April, 1796, which terminated with these words : " Nations of Italy ! the French army is come to break your chains ; the French are the friends of the people in every country; your religion, your property, your customs shall be respected.
Página 232 - Lacretelle than one would suppose the present time admitted of; the Abbe de Lisle has distinguished himself by a translation of Milton, and by another of Virgil ; and the author of the Studies of Nature, and of Paul and Virginia is still alive.
Página 206 - Garni, where she lodged. All that the people of the house knew of him was, that he was an officer of artillery, that his name was Bonaparte, and that his purse was very slenderly furnished.
Página 111 - There have been instances of persons who have been deaf from their birth, and consequently dumb; and after they have arrived to adult or middle age, have been able to hear and speak; and though, before this, they attended public worship with others, and appeared very devout, and often made those signs which those with whom they conversed in this way thought were expressions of their belief of the being of God, and of their piety; yet, when they came to hear and speak, they declared that they never...
Página 199 - The gallant remr nant of his army, who might with justice have upbraided him for the waste which had been made of their strength, and the distress they had been so unprofitably exposed to, seemed rather disposed to solicit his forgiveness for not having done more. His last exploit in Egypt was the attack of the Turkish post at Aboukir, and here Fortune, whom he has almost converted into a goddess, seems indeed to have befriended him. Miot, one of his warmest admirers, asserts, that if the Turks,...
Página 270 - ... we had an opportunity of examining several of the cavern houses as we passed along ; they are in some places, where the cliff recedes sufficiently as it ascends, in tires one above the other, and it then sometimes happens, that the smoke of one man's habitation rises up in the midst of his neighbour's garden. Our first day's journey, and it was a very short one, brought us to the house of Monsieur Du...
Página 32 - ... and dispensation of Providence: I have seen some welllooking young women listening with attention to these seers, and heard one of them tell a young man, in whose countenance there was a great deal of anxiety expressed, the nine of hearts shows me that you have been extremely agitated of late, but I see by the ace of spades that you are about to take a little journey, which will set all to rights again. It is said by those who know Paris, that there are at least fifty fortune-tellers upon the...
Página 276 - ... in the seigneurial courts, which comprised every species of despotism, and occasioned an irreparable loss of time, and enormous expenses on the most trifling occasions. These taxes though heavy, are now in proportion to the property they hold, and to their consumption. Their wages as labourers are increased, and every article which they can raise for the use of the neighbouring towns commands a higher price ; they are, in short, better fed, better clothed, better protected by the law, and live...