A Visit to Paris in 1814: Being a Review of the Moral, Political, Intellectual, and Social Condition of the French CapitalLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 - Počet stran: 343 |
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Strana 244 - And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee ; And no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; And the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee ; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee...
Strana 244 - And a mighty angel took up a stone, like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, thus, with violence, shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Strana 244 - ... shall be heard no more at all in thee; and the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Strana 343 - ... and vicious, giving up all that exalts and endears them in their proper characters of wives and friends, and partners in good and consolers in adverse fortunes ! Even before the revolution, manners were bad enough, but many causes since have rubbed off the gilding; the banishment of the nobles, the succession of low men to power, and more than all the elevation of plebeian soldiers to high rank, promoting of course their trulls to a station where manners and morals were under their influence;...
Strana 343 - ... partners ; all these causes must have conspired to make a frightful carnage in manners and morals too. In short, I am persuaded that a single monster has done more to demoralize and uncivilize this country than a century can repair.
Strana 341 - I had written, and sent it to you, it would have been a tissue of astonishment, or affliction, or disgust. I see clearly I am likely to be drummed out of this sad world. I fear war will soon unfold her tattered banners on the continent. This poor country is in a deplorable state — a ruined noblesse, a famished clergy, a depopulated nation, a state of smothered war between the upstarts and the restored ; their finances most distressed ; the military spirits divided ; the most opposite opinions as...
Strana 58 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Strana 342 - ... weeks can give but little room for exact observation; but from what I do see, and learn from others who have seen long and deeply, I have conceived the worst of social Paris. Every thing on the surface is abominable; beastlinesses that even with us do not exist; they actually seem in talk and in practice to cultivate a familiarity with nastiness. In every public place they are spitting on your shoes, in your plate, almost in your mouth. Such community of secretions, with, I think, scarcely any...
Strana 198 - These breaches of nuptial fidelity, it is affirmed, are less universal at present than they were before the Revolution ; but I believe it is doing no injustice to the state of French morals to say, that they now constitute the majority of cases of conduct after wedlock, in the genteel circles of Paris: before the Revolution, a case of post nuptial chastity in these circles was neither known nor expected.
Strana 301 - ... activity in the tiger and the lion, or impart swiftness to the horse and the antelope. The skeletons of birds are not so numerous as those of the quadrupeds : there are many of the amphibia, and one of a crocodile : there are also many skeletons of fishes. The wax preparations of fishes and shell-fish 'follow, constructed with the nicest art, and displaying the true colours and position of animals which it is impossible to preserve. The anatomy of the Chiton, for example, is fine. Snails in wax...