 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1848 - 518 pages
...the servility of courtiers. The lavishly spread tables, the walks, the play, presentations — all passed before her eyes in the pomp and vanity of the...religion alone, then so powerful over her, restrained her 272 HAS MANY SUITORS. within the bounds of that resignation which submits the thoughts to the will... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1849 - 506 pages
...the servility of courtiers. The lavishly spread tables, the walks, the play, presentations — all passed before her eyes in the pomp and vanity of the...religion alone, then so powerful over her, restrained her £73 HAS MANY SUITORS. within the bounds of that resignation which submits the thoughts to the will... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1849 - 516 pages
...the servility of courtiers. The lavishly spread tables, the walks, the play, presentations — all passed before her eyes in the pomp and vanity of the...religion alone, then so powerful over her, restrained her 272 HAS MANY SUITOKS. 'within the bounds of that resignation which submits the thoughts to the will... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1856 - 562 pages
...mother. " To make me feel injustice, and look upon absurdity." As she contemplated these splendours of the despotism of Louis XIV., which were drooping...Thus, the imagination, character, and studies of this gir! prepared her, unknown to herself, for the republic. Her religion alone, then so powerful over... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1868 - 502 pages
...I shall so much detest all the persons I see, that I should not know what to do with my Jiatred." " What harm have they done you ?" inquired her mother....to herself, for the republic. Her religion alone, thon so powerful over her, restrained her within the bounds of that resignation ivhich submits the... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1890 - 570 pages
...Aristides, the condemnation of Phocion. " I did not then foresee," she writes, in melancholy mood, us she pens these lines — " that destiny reserved me...of which they were the victims, and to participate ir the glory of their martyrs, after having professed their prin ciples." Thus, the imagination, character,... | |
 | Madame Roland - Autobiographies - 1900 - 458 pages
...condemnation of Phocion. I dreamt not that heaven had reserved me to be witness of errors similar to those of which they were the victims, and to participate in the glory of the same persecution after having professed the same principles. Heaven knows that the misfortunes... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1928 - 1040 pages
...condemnation of Phocion. I did not know that Heaven had destined me to be a witness of crimes similar to those of which they were the victims, and to participate in the glory of a persecution of the same kind, after having professed their principles.43 Such was the effect, as... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - Philosophy - 2003 - 200 pages
...of Phocion"; is aware all at once that heaven has destined her "to be a witness to crimes similar to those of which they were the victims, and to participate in the glory of a persecution of the same kind." Sitting in prison she therefore wrote her memoirs, for "what better... | |
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... attics with one of the female domestics of the Chateau, she was a close observer of this royal luxury, which she believed was paid for by the misery of the people, and that grandeur of things founded on the servility of courtiers. The lavishly spread... 