The Tourist in FranceJennings and Chaplin, 1834 - 280 ページ |
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187 ページ - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour, Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
277 ページ - ... mind of your royal highness, which hath been provoked against them. " In behalf of these poor people whose cause truly even commiseration itself may seem to make the more excusable, the most serene Protector of England is also become an intercessor; and he most earnestly entreateth and beseecheth your royal highness, that you would be pleased to extend your mercy to these your very poor subjects, and most disconsolate outcasts ; I mean those, who inhabiting beneath the Alps, and certain valleys...
278 ページ - I would speak without any offence to your highness, seeing we believe none of these things were done through any default of yours,) certainly they would be ashamed when they should find that they had contrived nothing in comparison with these things, that might be reputed barbarous and inhuman.
219 ページ - Nature hath assigned Two sovereign remedies for human grief: Religion, surest, firmest, first and best, Strength to the weak, and to the wounded balm ; And strenuous action next.
279 ページ - ... predecessors, a part of your army fell upon them, most cruelly slew several, put others in chains, and compelled the rest to fly into desert places, and to the mountains covered with snow, where some hundreds of families are reduced to such distress, that it is greatly to be feared, they will in a short time all miserably perish through cold and hunger.
278 ページ - But it is not my business to make a narrative of these things, in order as they were done, or to insist any longer upon them ; and that which my most serene master...
278 ページ - In the meantime, the angels are surprised with horror; men are amazed ; heaven itself seems to be astonished with the cries of dying men ; and the very earth to blush, being discoloured with the gore blood of so many innocent persons...
277 ページ - ... most miserable people have been cruelly massacred by your forces; part driven out by violence, and forced to leave their native habitations; and so, without house or shelter, poor, and destitute of all relief, do wander up and down with their wives and children, in craggy and uninhabited places, and mountains covered with snow.
93 ページ - ... by so fatal an accident; and at that moment, I am persuaded, my countenance plainly expressed the sentiments with which I was agitated. Guided by my first impulse, I arose, took a flambeau, and, ordering all that were in the house (which was about a hundred) to range themselves round the walls...
279 ページ - Milton,* and of which the following is a translation, to the duke of Savoy: — " Most serene Prince, " We are informed by letters received from several places in the vicinity of your dominions, that the subjects of your royal highness, professing the reformed religion, have been commanded by an edict, published by your authority, to quit their habitations and lands, within three days after the promulgation of the said edict, under pain of death, and the confiscation of their property, unless they...