Travels in France, During the Years 1814-15: Comprising a Residence at Paris During the Stay of the Allied Armies, and at Aix, at the Period of the Landing of Bonaparte ...Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersy, 1816 - France |
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Page 88 - We went to see the caches d'eau, described as superset and magnifiques by our French friends. Their ideas differ from ours. It would be perfectly impossible for an English lady to go in such a conveyance, and few gentlemen, even if alone, and with only a portmanteau, would venture. The objections are — there is but one room for all classes of people ; they start at three and four each morning ; stop at miserable inns, and if you have heavy baggage, it must be shifted at the locks, which is tedious,...
Page 218 - English law on 150 different offences, is now in France confined to the very highest crimes only, the number of which does not exceed twelve. " A minute attention has been paid to the different degrees of guilt in the commission of the same crime ; and according to these, the punishments are as accurately proportioned as the cases will permit. One species of capital punishment has been ordained, instead of that multitude of cruel and barbarous deaths which were marshalled in terrible array along...
Page 174 - ... place, when there is a reasonable prospect of provision for a family. 4. The Peasant, although he may be disregarded by the superficial, or viewed with contempt by the vain, will be placed by those who judge of things not by their external appearance, but their intrinsic worth, in the most useful class of mankind. His occupation is conducive not only to the prosperity, but to the existence of society. He prepares the ground, scatters the seed, and reaps the harvest of...
Page 160 - Je suis perdu, mais il est si doux de mourir •* pour une si belle cause, et sous les yeux d'un aussi grand Prince...
Page 175 - ... curiosity. His life is one unwearied course of hardy exertion, and persevering toil. The vigour of his youth is exhausted by labour ; and what are the hopes and consolations of his age ? Sickness may deprive him of the opportunity of providing the least supply for the closing years of life ; and the gloomy confinement of a workhouse, or the scanty pittance of parochial help, is his last and only resource. By his condition may be estimated the prosperity of a nation ; the real opulence, strength,...
Page 88 - They smell, they are exposed to the inclemencies of the weather, and they are filled with bugs, fleas, and all kinds of bad company. The country to-day, though still very flat, is prettier. Very fine large meadows, with willows, but too regular. Bullocks as common as mules in the plough. Wheat far advanced, and barley, in some small spots, in the ear.
Page 144 - Je vous ai appelés autour de moi pour faire le bien , vous avez fait le mal ; vous avez parmi vous des gens...
Page 175 - ... trinsic worth, as the most useful class " of mankind." Their occupations conduce not only to the prosperity, but to the very existence of society. "His life " (that of the peasant) is one unvaried " course of hardy exertion and persevering " toil. The vigour of his youth is exhausted " by labour ; and what are the consolations " and hopes of his age ? Sickness may de...
Page 172 - Mes» dames, leur dit-il, maintenant que la fortune » m'est contraire, on dit que je suis un coquin ,, » un scélérat, un brigand. Mais savez-vous ce » que c'est que tout cela? J'ai voulu mettre la » France au-dessus de l'Angleterre , et j'ai échoué