Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Maceroni, Volume 2J. Macrone, 1838 |
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Page 458 - Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
Page 29 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 485 - Squire was steersman, and never lost his presence of mind. It may be conceived what amazement a thing of this kind, flashing through the village of Bushy, occasioned among the inhabitants. The people seemed petrified on seeing a carriage without horses. In the busy and populous town of Watford the sensation was similar — the men gazed in speechless wonder; the women clapped their hands. We turned round at the end of the street in magnificent...
Page 484 - Bushy Heath forms the plateau of a mountain, which is the highest point of terra firma in Middlesex ; and although so far inland, serves as a landmark for vessels at sea. The access to it from the London side, is by a road far steeper and more difficult than the one by which we once climbed over the Simplon into Italy.
Page xii - Every subject of common right may fish with lawful nets in a navigable river as well as in the sea ; and the king's grant cannot bar him thereof.
Page 229 - I am of opinion that the allies having declared the govern" ment of Napoleon an usurpation and not legitimate, all au" thority which emanates from it, ought to be considered as " null and of no effect : therefore all that remains for the " chambers and the commission to do, is immediately to give in " their resignation, and to declare that they took upon them...
Page iv - ... ventured to call in question, and who has publicly declared, that he regarded the convention as wholly military ? But, says Count Macironi, ' Talleyrand, the minister of Louis, was present on the morning of the 4th of July, when the Duke of Wellington, Sir C. Stuart, and Pozzo di Borgo were assembled in council ; and Talleyrand, turning to the Duke, requested him to read to the Count the capitulation which they had just concluded.'* p. 102. On the degree of respectability, which, on Count Macironi's...
Page 308 - I shall be well advanced towards my destination. I shall either succeed, or terminate my misfortunes with my life. I have faced death a thousand and a thousand times in fighting for my country : — shall I not be permitted to brave it once for myself? I tremble only for the fate of my family.. I shall ever remember with pleasure the noble and delicate manner in which you have fulfilled your mission to me. It forms an agreeable contrast with the gratuitously insolent and revolting behaviour of several...
Page 107 - ... king, and particularly by a letter in which Lord Castlereagh declared, — ' that it was only from motives of delicacy towards the King of Sicily, that the English, government was induced to delay for a moment the conclusion of a particular and special treaty of alliance with the King...
Page 486 - Bushy, occasioned among the inhabitants. The people seemed petrified on seeing a carriage without horses. In the busy and populous town of Watford the sensation was similar — the men gazed in speechless wonder ; the women clapped their hands. We turned round at the end of the street in magnificent style, and ascended Clay Hill at the same rate as the stage coaches drawn by five horses, and at length regained our starting place.