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Page 26 - A row of seventeen glorious diamonds, as large almost as filberts, encircle, not too tightly, the neck, a first time. Looser, gracefully fastened thrice to these, a three-wreathed festoon, and pendants enough (simple pearshaped, multiple star-shaped, or clustering amorphous) encircle it, enwreath it, a second time. Loosest of all, softly flowing round from behind in priceless catenary, rush down two broad threefold rows ; seem to knot themselves, round a very Queen of Diamonds, on the bosom ; then...
Page 18 - ... to support the fire — such was the inventory, at least such was mine. I was indebted only to the commiseration of the turnkey, after several months' confinement, for a pair of tongs and a fire-shovel.
Page 7 - CHARGED AN OVERDUE FEE IF THIS BOOK 1S NOT RETURNED TO THE LIBRARY ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW. NON-RECEIPT OF OVERDUE NOTICES DOES NOT EXEMPT THE BORROWER FROM OVERDUE FEES.
Page 44 - The governor was seized, but on the way to the hotel de ville he was torn from his captors and put to death. The next day the destruction of the Bastille commenced. Not a vestige of it exists, but its site is marked by a column in the Place de la Bastille.
Page 29 - Valois De La Motte; containing a compleat justification of her conduct, and an explanation of the intrigues and artifices used against her by her enemies, relative to the Diamond Necklace; also the correspondence, between the Queen and the Cardinal De Rohan and concluding with an address to the King of France, supplicating a re-investigation of that apparently mysterious business, translated from the French written by herself.
Page 10 - ... novel method of transmitting messages of any length or description by means of some kind of a telegraph, " nearly as rapidly as the imagination can conceive them." He adds, " I am persuaded that in time it will become the most useful instrument of commerce for all correspondence of that kind; just as electricity will be the most powerful agent of medicine ; and as the fire-pump will be the principle of all mechanic processes which require, or are to communicate, great force.
Page 6 - ... of their prifoner ; thirdly, of being deprived of every kind of relief, till the diforder becomes fo violent as to put his life in danger. ' And even then, if they give any medicines, it is but an additional torment to him, The police of the prifon...
Page 40 - April, 1369, by the order of that king. The Bastille consisted at first of two round towers, with an entrance between them. Afterwards, to render it stronger, two additional towers, parallel to the two first, were built, and the whole connected by walls. The building, however, was not completed till 1383, in the reign of Charles VI., when four more towers were added, of the same dimensions, and at equal distances from the first four, and the whole eight were united by masonry of great thickness,...
Page 18 - Two mattrasses half eaten by the worms, a matted elbow chair, the bottom of which was kept together by pack-thread, a tottering table, a water pitcher, two pots of Dutch ware, one of which served to drink out of, and two flag-stones to support the fire, composed the inventory of mine.