Institutions et vie municipale à Aix-en-Provence sous la Révolution: 1789-an VIIIEDISUD, 1809 - 672 ページ |
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... known , and that I hold too respectable a situation in society , to encourage an expectation that I could be made the instrument of gratifying any man's private animosity . I AM too much indebted to many enlightened Gentlemen ,
... known , and that I hold too respectable a situation in society , to encourage an expectation that I could be made the instrument of gratifying any man's private animosity . I AM too much indebted to many enlightened Gentlemen ,
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... A professor , who fa- voured me with his company on the occasion , had the honour of having known that exalted character well . He informed me , in opposition to the generally credited 6 ANECDOTE OF MR . PITT . remark that Mr.
... A professor , who fa- voured me with his company on the occasion , had the honour of having known that exalted character well . He informed me , in opposition to the generally credited 6 ANECDOTE OF MR . PITT . remark that Mr.
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... known for his learning , and the uncom- mon enterprise and enthusiasm with which he achieved a very extensive tour through various distant countries , par- ticularly in Greece , from which , at considerable cost and with infinite ...
... known for his learning , and the uncom- mon enterprise and enthusiasm with which he achieved a very extensive tour through various distant countries , par- ticularly in Greece , from which , at considerable cost and with infinite ...
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... into it soon disappears . Burleigh House and Park adjoin the town , and give it the only interest which it possesses . This munificent donation of Elizabeth to her favourite mi- 12 BURLEIGH . nister is well known . Compared with C 2.
... into it soon disappears . Burleigh House and Park adjoin the town , and give it the only interest which it possesses . This munificent donation of Elizabeth to her favourite mi- 12 BURLEIGH . nister is well known . Compared with C 2.
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1789-an VIII Christiane Derobert-Ratel. 12 BURLEIGH . nister is well known . Compared with his merits , she cour- teously said it was too small . In the noble apartments are many costly and exquisite paintings . On that of our Sa- viour ...
1789-an VIII Christiane Derobert-Ratel. 12 BURLEIGH . nister is well known . Compared with his merits , she cour- teously said it was too small . In the noble apartments are many costly and exquisite paintings . On that of our Sa- viour ...
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Aberdeen Aberdeenshire adjoining admiration afterwards amongst ancient ANECDOTE appearance arch beautiful bridge building CALEDONIAN CANAL called castle cathedral celebrated character church civil considerable court distance Ditto Duke Earl Edinburgh elegant England English erected feet FLORA MACDONALD Fort Augustus Fort William frequently Gaelic gentleman Gothic architecture handsome Hebrides Highlands hill honour hospitality hundred informed inhabitants Inverness island James Jedburgh King lady lake land language Leith Loch Loch Oich Lord Macdonald magistrates manufactures Marischal College ment miles mountains nature neighbourhood noble Oban object observed parish passed peasant persons Perth Peterhead poor present Prince principal prison Queen resembles residence river road rock royal Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish seat ship shores side society spirit Staffa stands stone streets summit tion town traveller trees Ulva vessels visited vitrified VITRIFIED FORTS walls whilst wind worthy
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199 ページ - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
354 ページ - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
43 ページ - Some of his skill he taught to me; And, Warrior, I could say to thee The words that cleft Eildon hills in three, And bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone. But to speak them were a deadly sin ; And for having but thought them my heart within, A treble penance must be done.
64 ページ - Then she asked what kind of exercises she used. I answered, that when I received my dispatch, the Queen was lately come from the Highland hunting: that when her more serious affairs permitted, she was taken up with reading of histories: that sometimes she recreated herself in playing upon the lute and virginals. She asked if she played well. I said, "reasonably for a Queen.
252 ページ - ... which put an end to his life. Nothing, methinks, has more the power of awakening benevolence, than the consideration of genius thus depressed by situation, suffered to pine in obscurity, and sometimes, as in the case of this unfortunate young man, to perish, -it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniences which might have fostered a delicacy of frame or of mind, ill calculated to bear the hardships which poverty lays on both. For my own part, I never pass the place (a little hamlet skirted...
272 ページ - ... darkness, were too much dazzled with its light to see any thing distinctly. The first race of scholars in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for the most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another generation.
65 ページ - I might see her dance, as I was afterwards informed; which being over, she inquired of me whether she or my Queen danced best? I answered, the Queen danced not so high or disposedly as she did.
354 ページ - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress...
252 ページ - I never look on his dwelling, — a small thatched house distinguished from the cottages of the other inhabitants only by a sashed window at the end- instead of a lattice, fringed with a honey-suckle plant, which the poor youth had trained around it ; — I never find myself in that spot, but I stop my horse involuntarily ; — and looking on the window, which the honey-suckle has now almost covered, in the dream of the moment, I picture out a figure for the gentle tenant of the mansion ; I wish,...
65 ページ - I knew how, excusing my fault of homeliness as being brought up in the court of France, where such freedom was allowed, declaring myself willing to endure what kind of punishment her majesty should be pleased to inflict upon me for so great an offence. Then she sat down low upon a cushion, and I upon my knees by her, but with her own hand she gave me a cushion to lay under my knee, which at first I refused, but she compelled me to take it. She then called for my Lady Strafford out of the next chamber,...