French Affairs: Letters from Paris, Volume 7W. Heinemann, 1893 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Pagina 102 - ... when an order on the subject was published by the chief of police. For the police, who in every country seem to be less inclined to prevent crime than to appear to know all about it, either desired to display their universal information or else thought, as regards the tales of poisoning, that whether they were true or false, they themselves must in any case divert all suspicion from the Government — suffice it to say, that by their unfortunate proclamation, in which they distinctly said that...
Pagina x - Prussia, and hoped to see in its kings the masters of a united Germany. They have baited and allured patriotism to it ; there was a Prussian Liberalism, and the friends of freedom look confidingly towards the lindens in Berlin. As for me, I have never shared this faith or confidence. On the contrary, I watched with anxiety this Prussian eagle, and, while others boasted that he looked so boldly at the sun, I was all the more observant of his claws. I did not trust this Prussian, this tall and canting,...
Pagina 32 - ... nowhere so much as in France. Perhaps, with the exception of August Wilhelm Schlegel, there is not a woman in Germany so fond of gay ribbons as the French; even the heroes of July, who fought for freedom and equality, afterward wore blue ribbons to distinguish themselves from the rest of the people. Yet, if I on this account doubt the success of a republic in Europe, it still cannot be denied that everything is leading to one ; that the republican respect for law in place of veneration of royal...
Pagina vii - ... photograph, one by one, not with unpitying but very pitying accuracy, the causes which would lead to that monarch's overthrow. These causes were bound up and intertwined with many influences which are still in vivid action, and which no writer in any language has expressed more wisely, more searchingly, or more succinctly than Heine. Therefore it forms an admirable preparation for a study of French politics of the present day.
Pagina 34 - Napoleon, the man of iron, here as in life standing on his fame, earned by cannon (Kanonenruhm'), rising in terrible isolation to the clouds, so that every ambitious soldier, when he beholds him, the unattainable one, there on high, may have his heart humbled and healed of the vain love of celebrity, and thus this colossal column of metal, as a lightning conductor of conquering heroism, will establish the most peaceable profit in Europe.2 Lafayette has raised for himself a better column than that...
Pagina 41 - American," was received civilly, and stayed a week. I mention this not for gossip's sake, but as illustrating Heine's remark to the effect that an unbounded hospitality prevailed at Lagrange. — Translator. battle for freedom that nothing is stolen and that everybody keeps his little property. The great army of public order, as Casimir Perier called the National Guard, the well-fed heroes in great bearskin caps into which small shopmen's heads are stuck, are drunk with delight when they speak of...
Pagina 42 - ... He was, indeed, the first person who ever paid me this formal compliment ! As a boy, Lafayette seems to me from pictures as the former spoke in the Literaturblatt of the triumphal march of the former across the United States, and of the deputations, addresses, and solemn discourses which ensued on such occasions. Other much less witty folk wrongly imagine that Lafayette is only an old man who is kept for show or used as a machine. But they need only hear him once speak in public to learn that...
Pagina 32 - ... for a short time at least. The Carlists favour this result, inasmuch as they regard it as a necessary phase in order to get back the absolute monarchy of the elder line. On this account they bear themselves at present like the most zealous republicans; even Chateaubriand eulogises the republic, and calls himself a republican from inclination, fraternises with Marrast, and receives the accolade from Beranger. The Gazette, the hypocritical Gazette de France, pines at present for republican forms...
Pagina 26 - He is certainly perfectly honourable as a man, an estimable father of a family, a 55 tender spouse and a thrifty, but it is vexatious to see how he allows all the trees of liberty to be felled and stripped of their beautiful foliage that they maybe sawed into beams to support the tottering house of Orleans. For that, and that only, the Liberal press blames him, and the spirits of truth, in order to make war on him, even condescend to lie. It is melancholy and lamentable that through such tactics...