Letters from France, in 1802, Volume 2H.D. Symonds, 1804 |
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... executed at Seve . It must , however , be acknowledged , that the vox populi assigns the palm of superiority to the latter . Having gone over the whole of this elegant ex- hibition , at which we experienced the greatest politeness and ...
... executed at Seve . It must , however , be acknowledged , that the vox populi assigns the palm of superiority to the latter . Having gone over the whole of this elegant ex- hibition , at which we experienced the greatest politeness and ...
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... executed , and which I have heard some persons compare to the original . The Hotel de Ville , or Municipal Hall , is worthy of a traveller's attention , on account of its an- tiquity , and its having been the focus of many extraordinary ...
... executed , and which I have heard some persons compare to the original . The Hotel de Ville , or Municipal Hall , is worthy of a traveller's attention , on account of its an- tiquity , and its having been the focus of many extraordinary ...
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... execute . By an inconceivable remissness , the execution of that law was suspended for three years . National edifices were often granted by dint of favour to useless projectors , while the Conservatory of Arts could not obtain a place ...
... execute . By an inconceivable remissness , the execution of that law was suspended for three years . National edifices were often granted by dint of favour to useless projectors , while the Conservatory of Arts could not obtain a place ...
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... executed by order of our government . It has been also enriched by the discoveries of those French savans , those learned robbers of the National Institute , who ' composed the board of plunderers , that followed the victorious marches ...
... executed by order of our government . It has been also enriched by the discoveries of those French savans , those learned robbers of the National Institute , who ' composed the board of plunderers , that followed the victorious marches ...
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... executed by Beuvelot . This method of instruction , with the models at hand , is pre- ferable to a thousand didactic lectures . It is intended to add to the machines , specimens of the produce of French and foreign manufac- tures , in ...
... executed by Beuvelot . This method of instruction , with the models at hand , is pre- ferable to a thousand didactic lectures . It is intended to add to the machines , specimens of the produce of French and foreign manufac- tures , in ...
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Abbé Abbé Sicard admirable Agriculture ancient antiquity Apollo appearance April 21 artists arts attention Aveyron beautiful belonging Bonaparte bust called capital celebrated Chaptal circumstances collection Committee Consul Council Egypt England English establishment Europe executed expence extremely foreign former France François de Neufchateau French gallery genius give glory hall hand honour Hospital human hundred Italy Jacobin Journal June 19 King labours Legislative Lenoir LETTER LETTER lives livres Lucius Verus manner ment mind Minister Montesquieu monuments Museum National Institute nature never objects observed Olivier de Serres opinion ornamented Paine paintings paper Parian marble Paris Parisian Pentelican marble person philosophical political possessed present President principal prison pupils received Republic Republican respecting revolution sent shew Society statue sterling stolen style tableau thing Thomas Paine tion tomb tribune Turenne Vatican Vatican Museum whole
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Página 226 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 226 - With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Página 385 - As through unquiet rest: he, on his side Leaning, half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whisper'd thus: ' Awake My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! Awake...
Página 5 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 364 - There is scarcely a situation, except fire and water, in which a spider will not live. So let the mind be as naked as the walls of an empty and forsaken tenement, gloomy as a dungeon, or ornamented with the richest abilities of thinking; let it be hot, cold, dark or light, lonely or inhabited, still prejudice, if undisturbed, will fill it with cobwebs and live like the spider where there seems nothing to live on. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does...
Página 354 - Convention, and then only to make my appearance; because I found it impossible to join in their tremendous decrees, and useless and dangerous to oppose them. My having voted and spoken extensively, more so than any other member...
Página 356 - Basel before four, from which place I had a letter from them, highly pleased with their escape from France, into which they had entered with an enthusiasm of patriotic devotion. Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun, and destroyed those who produced it. I might almost say like Job's servant, "and I, only, am escaped.
Página 361 - This gave rise to an observation respecting his ' Age of Reason/ the publication of which I said had lost him the good opinion of numbers of his English advocates. He became uncommonly warm at this remark, and in a tone of singular energy declared, that he would not have published it, if he had not thought it calculated to ' inspire mankind with a more exalted idea of the Supreme Architect of the Universe, and to put an end to villainous imposture.
Página 107 - Archangel: but not being able to * mount so high, it was in vain for me to * search his resemblance here below;. so * that I was forced to make an introspection ' into my own mind, and into that Idea of ' Beauty, which I have formed in my own * imagination.
Página 355 - ... heart was in distress at the fate of my friends, and my harp hung upon the weeping willows. As it was summer we spent most of our time in the garden, and passed it away in those childish amusements that serve to keep reflection from the mind, such as marbles, scotch-hops, battledores, etc., at which we were all pretty expert.