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...its population until there were no more competent soldiers, no more competent generals… until they were easily defeated in battle by all comers, and ... ...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...h nearly all of his country’s wealth in his pockets, to live in luxury on the French Riviera. Russian New-age gangster’s becoming New-age warlords ... ... stop trading with Uganda altogether. The Press had a field day vilifying the French for their inhumanity and for their anti-American policies… Sin... ...e allowed that right. Only kings, emperors, presidents, dictators, rulers and generals are allowed to order other people to kill other people. leade... ...nto the field commander’s hands. Then you had an endless series of Roman Generals in outlying provinces that invaded their own city in order to... ...iot who came conquering; that nobody showed up. That incensed the conquering generals so badly that they went on rampages… killing, burning, and loo...

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...raitors become heroes—patriots. Look at the instigators of the American and French Revolutions. “Talking about rights, in today’s world few p... ...reation doesn’t include pre-marital sex. Hitler had a totalitarian control. Generals nearly always exert such control—the orders come down from the t...

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... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ...s Age of Reason, were powerful stimulators of 18 th Century American and French thinking. In The Age of Reason he wrote ‗My own mind is my own chur... ...At any rate, agnostics don‘t accept the teachings of religions. But as the French philosopher Rene Descartes told us ‗any person who actually tries t... ...r let‘s see if the coach can call a play that will score.‘ -- ―When generals told Donald Rumsfield that if he wanted to go war in Iraq he need...

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...hat opened the liquor cabinet and withdrew a bottle of his favorite red wine, a French Merlot. Georgi sat like a stone statue except for his eyes da... ...rters with expert ease. She knew which reporters were friendly or hostile. "Ms. French," Alana said pointing to an elderly, plump, red suited woman ... ...s," Taranto said as he moved to the bar and poured himself an aromatic glass of French Merlot '9l. "I have nothing to fear from one whose very exist... ...s someone important, someone with unquestioned authority." "Why not one of the Generals?" Brent took a wild stab. "For sure one of the Generals is ... ...he big, brass lion's head knocker, a beautiful, raven-haired woman dressed in a French maid's uniform said, "Welcome, Mr. Taranto. Mr. Pierce is exp...

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...h edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and Mildred Cable and Francesca French's The Gobi Desert (Macmillan, 1944). The last was supplied by Andr... ... Council had done little more than try to referee the arguments among the generals, the practicing sorcerers, the aging pedants, and the ever-smug y...

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...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i... ...society and the individuals comprising it can maximize their worst outcomes. The French have a saying: "Good bookkeeping – makes for a good frien... ...says about the future of the Internet - click HERE. 4. The period between 1789 (the French Revolution) and 1989 (the demise of Communism) is likely ... ...cisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho generals and demented artists. This world is not of our making a...

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...MAS CARLYLE INDEX A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Index THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE INDEX ABBAYE, massacres, Jour... ...ONNE Forest, occupied by Dumouriez, Brunswick at. ARISTOCRATS, officers in French army, number in Paris, seized, condition in 1794. ARLES, state of. A... ...eville, manufacture, in 1794, scarcity in 1792, Danton’s search for. ARMY, French, after Bastille, officered by aristocrats, to be dis- 4 Index bande... ...t Tuileries, massacred at La Force. 19 Index MAILLY, Marshal, one of Four Generals. MALESHERBES, M. de, in King’s Council, defends Louis. MALSEIGNE, ... ...BESPIERRE, Augustin, decreed accused, guillotined. ROCHAMBEAU, one of Four Generals, retires. ROCHE-AYMON, Grand Almoner of Louis XV. ROCHEFOUCAULT, D...

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...B B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicatio... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvan... .................................................................. 263 6 The French Revolution—V olume Two THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CAR... ...r unseemly sunk together, like one that had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, ... ...lottism itself rejoices in the King’s countenance. The rubbish of a 8 The French Revolution—V olume Two Menadic Insurrection, as in this ever-kindly ... ...nt with sanction of National Assem- bly, appointed one of our Four supreme Generals. Rochambeau and Mailly, men and Marshals of note in these days, th... ...ose; in grim calmness, awaiting the issue. What the intrepidest of men and generals can do is done. Bouille, though there is a barricading picket at e... ...ing time;—wretched, disobedient, disorganised; who never saw fire; the old Generals and Officers gone across the Rhine. War-minister Narbonne, he of t... ... and approximate ascertainment each of what is in the other. Let our Three Generals on the Frontiers look to it, there- fore; and poor Chevalier de Gr...

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylv... .................................................................. 274 6 The French Revolution - V olume Three THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS... ... Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowi... ...V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest; so that, th... ...way to Paris; we, scattered helpless, here and here: what to ad- vise? The Generals, strangers to Dumouriez, look blank enough; know not well what to ... ...his two walls, and the Brother of Rabaut. National Deputies not a few! And Generals: the memory of General Custine cannot be defended by his Son; his ... ...ng. Ci-devant Serjeant Pichegru, ci-devant Serjeant Hoche, risen now to be Generals, have done wonders here. Tall Pichegru was meant for the Church; w... ...of Liberty and hope of Promotion, low-born valour cut its desperate way to Generalship; and, from the central Carnot in Salut Public to the outmost dr...

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...nsieur Achille Deveria An affectionate remembrance from the Author. IF THE FRENCH have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propen... ...on for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than En- gland is ... ... thinking, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere else to be met with. Hence a French- man, whose... ... land like an uprooted tree. Emigration is counter to the instincts of the French nation. Many French- men, of the kind here in question, have owned t... ...aring hyperbole of patriotism. This preamble is intended to recall to such Frenchmen as have traveled the extreme pleasure they have felt on occa- sio... ... the morning, walking to and fro by the trenches of the Bastille, like two generals who, on the eve of a battle, calculate all the chances, examine th...

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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...ghters, now married to the Comte de Montcornet, one of those of Napoleon’s generals who went over to the Bourbons. The Vidame held that a dinner-party... ...versa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported it into this coun... ...ous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively eas...

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...y the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a s... ...which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet — both dreamers — which the Eng... ...ned in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended ... ...he gain without insolence. He began by accustoming the public to sound the final i of his name so little, that by the aid of general complaisance, he ... ...perhaps, as monsieur is a foreigner, which I perceive by his accent —” In fact, the unknown spoke with that impetuosity which is the principal charact... ...“But certain men have a family, sire, and no heir. The inheritance of Oliver was too heavy for Richard. Richard was neither a republican nor a royalis... ...admiration I entertain for your royal highness.” “Monsieur de Bragelonne,” said the prince, “is a good officer, and it is plainly seen that he has bee... ...What consequences?” “Eh! that damned sin of pride has roots without end. From the time that I threw myself in that manner between two armies, that I h... ... lines of soldiers, I have held generals a little in contempt.” “Ah!” said the father. “There is the evil; so that I have not found one endurable sinc...

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...y which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,--a belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange to say, on the day the sun fai...

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... of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between... ...Empire was just dawning. Those who in these days read the histories of the French Revolution can form no con- ception of the vast spaces which public ... ... fully as we are to the Revolution; or else, we must upset the idol of the French people and their future emperor, and seat the true throne upon his r... ...ul, irresist- ible, drawn from the same mysterious source from which great generals on fields of battle who inflame an army, great orators inspiring v... ...on- orable gentlemen on whose brow God Himself has written the word mites,—Frenchmen who burrowed in their coun- 46 An Historical Mystery try homes a... ...asty of Bonaparte to the throne and nomi- nated Napoleon as Emperor of the French, was submitted to the French people for acceptance Monsieur d’Hautes... ...t motionless on their horses. The carriage was now surrounded by a mass of generals, marshals, and other offic- ers, all extremely brilliant in appear...

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...nd to a Triumphant Carre. What? shall we curse the Planets of Mishap, That plotted thus our Glories overthrow? Or shall we thinke the subtile- witted French, Conjurers and Sorcerers, that afraid of him, By Magick Verses have contriv?d his end. Winch. He was a King, blest of the King of Kings. Unto the French, the dreadfull Judgement- Day So dreadfull will not be, as was hi...

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...hus our Glories ouerthrow? 33 Or shall we thinke the subtile- witted French, 34 Coniurers and Sorcerers, that afraid of him, 35 By M... ... Winch. He was a King, blest of the King of Kings. 37 Vnto the French, the dreadfull Iudgement- Day 38 So dreadfull will not be, as ... ...a Field should be dispatcht and fought, 83 You are disputing of your Generals. 84 One would haue lingring Warres, with little cost; 85 ... ...way with these disgracefull wayling Robes; 97 Wounds will I lend the French, in stead of Eyes, 98 To weepe their intermissiue Miseries. ... ...e you of a dismall fight, 118 Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot, and the French. 119 Win. What? wherein Talbot ouercame, is’t so? 120 ... ... six thousand in his troupe, 125 By three and twentie thousand of the French 126 Was round incompassed, and set vpon: 127 No leysure ha...

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...ainst it) kissed them. Really, if young women will insist on kissing major generals, they must expect that the 64 Thomas de Quincey generals will ret... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ... sister could have known him, he attempted vainly to interest her in these French luminar- ies by reading extracts from their frequent letters; which,... ...by his “Travels in Spain and Sicily,” &c.,) Mrs. Lee, whose education in a French con- vent, aided by her father’s influence, had introduced her ex- t... ...ral Needham, who commanded on this day, would have followed the example of Generals Fawcet and Loftus, and have ordered a retreat, had he not been det...

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...op- erly, and people to be stripped of their royal robes, beg- gars’ rags, generals’ uniforms, seedy out-at-elbowed coats, and the like—or the contrar... ...t the beginning; premising, in the first place, that Monsieur Guizot, when French Ambas- sador at London, waited upon Lord Palmerston with a request t... ... a request that the body of the Emperor Napoleon should be given up to the French nation, in order that it might find a final resting-place in French ... ...a that the corpse should be disinterred in due time, when the 7 Thackeray French expedition had arrived in search of it, and that every respect and a... ... few words (as in England, upon most points, is the laudable fashion), the French Chambers began to debate about the place in which they should bury t... ...w individuals in this great hot-headed, gallant, boasting, sublime, absurd French nation, who had taken a cool view of the dead Emperor’s character; i... ...he Prince of Joinville put on his full uniform and landed, in company with Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases, M. Marchand, M. Coquereau,... ...mperial mantle brought from Paris, the four corners of which were borne by Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases and M. Marchand. At half-pa... ...le placed himself at the rudder, Commandant Guyet at the head of the boat; Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Baron Las Cases, M. Marchand, and the Abbe ...

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...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...o. I evaded a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incred- ible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. ... ...clination to a dramatic and logical interpretation. The caricatures in the French shops show civilisation (and particularly Marianne) in conflict with... ...the General Headquarters of France, and here I was able to see and talk to Generals Pelle and Castelnau as well as to General Joffre. They are three v... ...r and stronger until they go back. The war must end in Germany. The French generals have no such delu- sions about German science or foresight or capa... ...ralysing Germanophobia is not common among the French. The war, the French generals said, might take—well, it certainly looked like taking longer than... ...- standing. And he had just the same detachment from the war as the French generals. He spoke of it—as one might speak of an inundation. And of its di...

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...self: the Dowager Viscountess Castlewood, written in the strange barbarous French which she and many other fine ladies of that time—witness her Grace ... ...smond answered. “My father, when wounded at the Boyne, told the truth to a French priest, who was in hiding after the battle, as well as to the priest... ...aks out my lady, speaking, as usual with her when she was agitated, in the French language. “Noblesse oblige,” says Mr. Esmond, making her a low bow. ... ...ailles; nay, the exact force and number of the next expedi- tion which the French king was to send from Dunkirk, and which was to swallow up the Princ... ...his own poor nature led him to choose, contending against the schemes, the generalship, the wisdom, and the heart of a hero. On one of these many cowa... ...air of the Boyne, at Trim, in Ireland, made both to the Irish priest and a French ecclesiastic of Holt’s order, that was with King James’s army. Holt ... ...ain Avory or Captain Kidd, than a war between crowned heads, carried on by generals of rank and honor. On the 1st day of July, 1702, a great fleet, of... ...ments of war. There was a hard touch for his Grace, and, indeed, for other generals in her Majesty’s service, in the concluding sentence of the Don: “... ...he end of May, the army reached Coblentz; and next day, his Grace, and the generals accompanying him, went to visit the Elector of Treves at his Castl...

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... to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had tak... ...overnor Endicott sat in it when he gave audience to an ambassador from the French governor of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massac... ...of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make wa... ...ood fortune. In the year 1690 he went on a military expedition against the French colonies in America, conquered the whole province of Acadia, and ret... ...ever since. In the course of it, New England suffered much injury from the French and Indians, who often came through the woods from Canada and assaul... ...d a suspicion that she betrayed the mili tary plans of the English to the generals of the French armies.” “And was it true?” inquired Clara. “Probabl... ...p here and there a mouldering bone. Up to this period, none of the English generals had shown any military talent. Shirley, the Earl of Loudon, and Ge... ...there were very famous men among them, who afterwards became governors and generals. Whether this be true I cannot tell.” When tidings of this bold de... .... But as the enterprise was very hazardous, he called a council of all the generals in the army. Accordingly they came from their different posts, and...