Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 - Anecdotes |
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... Louis the Fourteenth's unprovoked attack upon Holland , perpetrated fuch horrid cruelties in that country , that in the year 1673 a quarto volume was published with this title : " Avis fidele aux veritables Hollandois touchant ce qui c ...
... Louis the Fourteenth's unprovoked attack upon Holland , perpetrated fuch horrid cruelties in that country , that in the year 1673 a quarto volume was published with this title : " Avis fidele aux veritables Hollandois touchant ce qui c ...
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... LOUIS XIII . Roi du France , 66 par DUBOIS , l'un des Valets de Chambre de fa Majefté , le 14 Mai 1643. ” MARY DE MEDICIS , MOTHER OF LOUIS XIII WHEN this Princess made her escape from the Castle of Blois to join the Duke of Epernon at ...
... LOUIS XIII . Roi du France , 66 par DUBOIS , l'un des Valets de Chambre de fa Majefté , le 14 Mai 1643. ” MARY DE MEDICIS , MOTHER OF LOUIS XIII WHEN this Princess made her escape from the Castle of Blois to join the Duke of Epernon at ...
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... Louis the Fourteenth with one of his nieces , fhe nobly replied , " If " the King was capable of degrading himself so " far , I would put myself with my second son at the head of the whole French Nation against the King and against you ...
... Louis the Fourteenth with one of his nieces , fhe nobly replied , " If " the King was capable of degrading himself so " far , I would put myself with my second son at the head of the whole French Nation against the King and against you ...
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... Louis XIV . for several 66 days together , at the rifque of being treated " with the extremeft feverity of military law , " which denounces the most infamous and de- 66 grading punishment against all thofe Officers " who hold out ...
... Louis XIV . for several 66 days together , at the rifque of being treated " with the extremeft feverity of military law , " which denounces the most infamous and de- 66 grading punishment against all thofe Officers " who hold out ...
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... LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH , CALLED THE GREAT . [ 1643-1715 . ] FROM a converfation the great Prince of Condé had with this Prince when he was very young , he faid of him to Cardinal ... Louis , LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH . 233 LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH, ...
... LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH , CALLED THE GREAT . [ 1643-1715 . ] FROM a converfation the great Prince of Condé had with this Prince when he was very young , he faid of him to Cardinal ... Louis , LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH . 233 LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH, ...
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Page 107 - I HATE that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms ; And when ambition's voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands.
Page 359 - This great General was a man of letters; he was intended for the Church, and was known at the Court of France by the name of the Abbe de Savrie.
Page 258 - I give away the more I must take from them." " This, sire, is true," replied Madame de Maintenon, "but it is' right to ease the wants of those whom your former taxes to supply the expenses of your wars and of your buildings have reduced to misery. It is truly just that those who have been ruined by you, should be supported by you.
Page 107 - Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms: And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands. I hate that drum's difcordant found, , Parading round, and round, and round: To...
Page 252 - All the use to be made of it is, that this life is a scene of vanity, which soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life. This is what I can say upon experience; and what you will find to be true, when you come to make up the account.
Page 443 - Dr. Johnson was observed by a musical friend of his to be extremely inattentive at a concert, whilst a celebrated solo player was running up the divisions and subdivisions of notes upon his violin. His friend, to induce him to take greater notice of what was going on, told him how extremely difficult it was. " Difficult do you call it, Sir ? " replied the Doctor ;
Page 290 - This made his friends say, that he was born an astronomer. At this age, he had a dispute •with the boys of the village, whether the moon or the clouds moved ; to convince them that the moon did not move, he took them behind a tree, and made them take notice that the moon kept its situation between the same leaves, whilst the clouds passed on.
Page 290 - His ardour for study became then extreme ; the day was not long enough for him ; and he often read a good part of the night by the light of the lamp that was burning in the church of his village, his family being too poor to allow him candles for his nocturnal studios. He often took only four hours
Page 427 - Flanders, observed a young raw officer, who was in the same vessel with him, and with his usual humanity told him that he would take care of him, and conduct him to Antwerp, where they were both going; which he accordingly did. and then took leave of him. The young fellow was soon told by some arch rogues, whom he happened to fall in with, that he must signalize himself by fighting some man of known courage, or else he would soon be despised in the regiment. The young man said, he knew no one but...
Page 335 - Lulli died at laft of a wound which he had given himfelf in his foot, by beating time with too much violence with his cane. Agitated by the extremeft remorfe for the free life which he had led, he ordered...