Journals Kept in France and Italy from 1848 to 1852: With a Sketch of the Revolution of 1848, Volumen2H. S. King, 1871 - 301 páginas |
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Página 201 - Houses, either by consistently setting aside the advice tendered by them and thereby making them resign from their office or by taking an unpalatable decision and allowing it to pass off as if tendered by the Council of Ministers under cover of Article 74(2).
Página 229 - For a real parallel you must go back 1,800 years.' I said ' that some persons, for whose judgment I had the highest respect, seemed to treat it as a contest between two conspirators, the Assembly and the President, and to think the difference between his conduct and theirs to be, that he struck first.' ' This,' said Tocqueville, ' I utterly deny. He indeed began to conspire from December 10, 1848. His direct instructions to Oudinot and his letter to Ney, only a few months after his election, showed...
Página 100 - H 2 an Englishman, is civis Romanus. He is not bound to put up with the institutions of other countries. He carries abroad with him his amusements, his comforts, his habits, and even his hours. Wherever you go the " Galignani " follows you. No foreign post-office ventures to intercept it. When I read Cicero's " Letters " I fancy myself reading the correspondence of one of your statesmen. All the thoughts, all the feelings, almost all the expressions, are English.
Página 99 - It consists of a central despotism, and of provincial despots whom they call pashas and cadis, and we call cardinals and prelates in the provinces. The real successors of the ancient Romans are the English. You have inherited the Roman respect for law and authority, the Roman love for what is established, the Roman pertinacity of purpose...
Página 96 - If we had had the slightest suspicion of the storm which we were about to excite it would have been easy to avoid it. The Bull was signed three years ago, and has been acted on ever since. If instead of formally, perhaps I may say ostentatiously, promulgating it, we had merely continued to act on it quietly and silently, the fact that there was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster would have gradually oozed out, and at length have become notorious without alarming anybody.
Página 221 - These decrees had scarcely been signed by all the members present, and deposited in a place of safety, when a band of soldiers, headed by their officers, sword in hand,, appeared at the door, without, however, daring to enter the apartment. The Assembly awaited them in perfect silence. The President alone raised his voice, read the decrees which had just been passed to the soldiers, and ordered them to retire. The poor fellows, ashamed of the part they were compelled to play, hesitated. The officers,...
Página 230 - ... a set of military ruffians and of infamous civilians, fit only to have formed the staff and the Privy Council of Catiline. We cannot bear that the people which carried the torch of liberty through Europe should now be employed in quenching all its lights. But these are not the feelings of the multitude. Their insane fear of socialism throws them headlong into the arms of despotism. As in Prussia, as in Hungary, as in Austria, as in Italy, so in France the Democrats have served the cause of the...
Página 16 - ... those who survived) of the fortitude and magnanimity with which the cultivated mind and the sense of a noble cause supported so terrible a form of suffering, is as pathetic as sublime. It is due to Baron Poerio to quote here the substance of a note added by Mrs. Simpson to her father's journal : ' He visited England, and came often to Mr. Senior's house. He spoke freely of his imprisonment, and said that the time passed with wonderful rapidity. He was allowed to .choose the prisoner with whom...
Página 7 - The disgusting population of Naples was all abroad — basking, quarrelling, gambling, and begging over the whole road. In cold countries the debased classes keep at home; here they live in the streets ; and as the dwellings of the rich and poor intermingle, the same house, which in its first and second floors is a palace, having often its cellars turned into dens of misery and vice, you never are free from the sight, or, indeed, from the contact, of loathsome degradation. I never saw so hateful...
Página 134 - ... I afterwards called on Dr. Nicholl. He was in Rome when the French made their first attack, and related to me some of its details. ' I was returning/ he said, ' from a ride, when I found a crowd at one of the gates. Garibaldi was on the outside, and the Government was debating whether they should let him in. The general wish among the Romans was to exclude him. They had no serious intention of resisting the French, and feared, with truth, that his presence might force them on useless sacrifices.