The Female Revolutionary Plutarch: Containing Biographical, Historical, and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters, and Anecdotes, Volume 1J. & W. Smith, 1808 |
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Page 165 - Necker, and could have wished to have shown him, as a warning, to any aspiring youth possessed with the demon of ambition. With all the means of private happiness in his power, he is the most miserable of human beings : the past, the present, and the future are equally odious to him. When I suggested some domestic amusements of books, building, &c., he answered, with a deep tone of despair, " Dans 1'etat ou je suis, je ne puis sentir que le coup de vent qui m!a abattu.
Page 85 - Louis, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre to Louis by the grace of God and the constitutional law of the State, King of the French.
Page 85 - Marriage i« an act purely civil, and authorised by the government. The law authorises divorce in all cases which shall have been previously provided for and determined. There shall be national festivals for celebrating independence, the birth-day of the Emperor and his august spouse, that of agriculture and of the constitution. At the first firing of the alarm gun, the cities will disappear, and the nation rise. We, the undersigned, place under, the safeguard of the magistrates, fathers and mothers...
Page 83 - There shall be, in the empire, two ministers and a secretary of state. The minister of finances having the department of the interior, and the minister of war having the marine department. — 40. — 44. (Interior regulations respecting the ministry.) Of the Tribunals. Art. 45. No one can interfere with the right which every individual has, of being judged amicably by arbitrators of his own chusing, whose decisions shall be acknowledged legal.
Page 395 - Hb ..a*. *"-" punished us for our sins ; those scourges of mankind have dared to threaten us with the same shameful yoke, and the same fetters, which degrade themselves. Our fathers, our husbands, our brothers, our sons, and our friends, are already advancing to oppose them. If our defenders are defeated by superior numbers, will you suffer those criminals to reduce you to bondage, will you be the mistresses or servants of those monsters, who, in this barbarous, unprovoked manner, have made you childless,...
Page 82 - The emperor directs the receipts and expenditure* of the state, surveys the mint, of which he alone orders the emission, and fixes the weight and the model. 32. To him alone is reserved the power of making peace or war, to maintain political intercourse, and to form treaties. 33. He provides for the interior safety and for the defence of the state, and distributes at pleasure the sea and land forces. 34. In case of conspiracies manifesting themselves against the safety of the state, against the constitution,...
Page 80 - The person of their Majesties are sacred and inviolable. 22. The state will appropriate a fixed annual- allowance to her Majesty the Empress, which she will continue to enjoy even after the decease of the Emperor, as Princess Dowager. 23. The crown is elective, not hereditary. 24. There shall be assigned by die state an annual income to the children acknowledged by his Majesty the Emperor.
Page 83 - Any suit amounting to more than one hundred dollars, shall not come within his cognizance. And when the parties cannot conciliate themselves at his tribunal, they may appeal to the tribunals of their respective districts. — 47. There shall be six tribunals in the cities hcreaf.
Page 165 - I passed four days at the castle of Copet with Necker ; and could have wished to have shown him as a warning to any aspiring youth possessed with the demon of ambition. With all the means of private happiness in his power, he is the most miserable of human beings : the past, the present, and the future, are equally odious to him.