 | Early English newspapers - 1847 - 762 pages
...Europe for so many ages ? And am I not to lament that I have lived to see those manners extintinguished in so shocking a manner, by means of speculations...homage of a nation to her, — and the abominable scone of 1789, which I was describing, did draw tears from me, and wetted my paper. These tears came... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 572 pages
...palliate assassination, regicide, and base insult to women of illustrious place, to prove the crimes (in1 sufferings) which they allege, to justify their own....recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen of Trance, in the year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the... | |
 | William Dowe - 1857 - 280 pages
...for women of condition and of beauty, without any consideration whatever of enjoying them, was the source of those manners which have been the pride...the manner in which I saw the Queen of France, in 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, and splendor, and beauty, with the prostrate homage... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...carrying poison about with her. P. 89, 1. I. // is now, Sec. Burke to Sir P. Francis, Feb. 20, 1790; ' I tell you again, that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the Queen of France, in the year 1 774' ant^ the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1881 - 470 pages
...II // is now, &c. Burke to Sir P. Francis, Feb. 20, 1790; ' I tell you again, that the tecollection of the manner in which I saw the Queen of France, in the year 1 774» an^ the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage... | |
 | John Morley - Fiction - 1879 - 236 pages
...midnight assassins at backstairs and their more wicked abettors in pulpits. And then he went on, " I tell you again that the recollection of the manner...in which I saw the Queen of France in the year 1774 [1773], and the con; trast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 256 pages
...midnight assassins at backstairs and their more wicked abettors in pulpits. And then he went on, " I tell you again that the recollection of the manner...in which I saw the Queen of France in the year 1774 [1773], and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 644 pages
...finance, and the false science of a sordid and degenenite philosophy 7 I tell you again,—that thi recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen...and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her,—;m'l the abominable scene of 1789, which I was describing,—did draw tears from me and wetted... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...Sir Philip Francis (the supposed author of yiurins), makes the following interesting observations : " I tell you again that the recollection of the manner...year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendor, and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to again into my eyes, almost as often... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...which I saw the Queen of France in the year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendor, and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her, and the abominable scene of I789,which I was describing, did draw tears from me, and wetted my paper. These tears came again into... | |
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I tell you again, — that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen of France, in the year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her, — and the abominable scene... 
