Reflections on the European Revolution of 1848Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1848 - 192 pages |
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... republican sentiments ; while the former still held to the old régime . Louis - Philippe was thus in a position to outbid at any time the Bourbon for popularity with the French people . There can be now no doubt that this was then his ...
... republican sentiments ; while the former still held to the old régime . Louis - Philippe was thus in a position to outbid at any time the Bourbon for popularity with the French people . There can be now no doubt that this was then his ...
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... republican party , raised on the ruins of that of the Bourbon . Louis - Philippe became King of the French - not indeed king of the soil , but ( better , had he only known what it meant ) king of the souls of Frenchmen -under the solemn ...
... republican party , raised on the ruins of that of the Bourbon . Louis - Philippe became King of the French - not indeed king of the soil , but ( better , had he only known what it meant ) king of the souls of Frenchmen -under the solemn ...
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... Republican party . The answer to this is easy . The Guizot government made all the demonstration for which they had been prepared : all that they had deerned necessary . Sixty - one banquets had been permitted - the sixty - second was ...
... Republican party . The answer to this is easy . The Guizot government made all the demonstration for which they had been prepared : all that they had deerned necessary . Sixty - one banquets had been permitted - the sixty - second was ...
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... Republican and Communist party . The Constitutional Opposition , by taking itself to the streets , had put itself in the wrong , and might and did yield to the ministerial dictation . But the Republican and Com- munist parties were in ...
... Republican and Communist party . The Constitutional Opposition , by taking itself to the streets , had put itself in the wrong , and might and did yield to the ministerial dictation . But the Republican and Com- munist parties were in ...
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... republican form of government was the one most suitable for France -often and often had they in clubs and assemblies dis- cussed , debated , and voted on whatever affected labour , finance , and representation . M. Louis Blanc , in his ...
... republican form of government was the one most suitable for France -often and often had they in clubs and assemblies dis- cussed , debated , and voted on whatever affected labour , finance , and representation . M. Louis Blanc , in his ...
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Page 114 - There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Wherever they are actually found, they have, in whatever state, condition, profession, or trade, the passport of Heaven to human place and honor.
Page 44 - Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. 0 but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.
Page 184 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son...
Page 7 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape And showed a Newton as we show an ape.
Page 118 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 184 - Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 110 - Citizens! for my part, I will never adopt the red flag, and I will explain in a word why I will oppose it with all the strength of my patriotism. It is, citizens, because the...
Page 99 - All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world. The most wonderful things are brought about in many instances by means the most absurd and ridiculous; in the most ridiculous modes ; and, apparently, by the most contemptible instruments.
Page 99 - It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world.
Page 44 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.