Paris as it was and as it is: Or, A Sketch of the French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution, with Respect to Sciences, Literature, Arts, Religion, Education, Manners, and Amusements; Comprising Also a Correct Account of the Most Remarkable National Establishments and Public Buildings, Volume 2C.and R. Baldwin, 1803 - Paris (France) |
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Page 440 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Page 110 - WE SWEAR to be for ever faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the King ; to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the King ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen by indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Page 305 - ... latter monarch did not exceed eight or ten volumes. Charles V., his successor, who patronized literature, caused many works to be copied, and others to be translated; with these, and some that were presented to him, he formed a library, consisting of 910 volumes. They were deposited in a tower of the Louvre, called la Tour de la Librairie...
Page 315 - The ninth, geography. The tenth, plans and elevations of ancient and modern buildings. The eleventh, portraits of all professions, to the number of upwards of fifty thousand.
Page 480 - Yet let me choose some pine-top'd precipice Abrupt and shaggy, whence a foamy stream, Like Anio, tumbling roars; or some bleak heath, Where straggling stands the mournful juniper, Or yew-tree scath'd...
Page 479 - Henry IV was the first of the kings of France who embellished Paris with regular squares, or open spaces, decorated with the different orders of architecture.
Page 19 - ... in the common word due to the worst of women; but regard is to be had to their circumstances when they fell, to the uneasy perplexity under which they lived under senseless and severe parents, to the importunity of poverty, to the violence of a passion in its beginning well grounded, and all other alleviations which make unhappy women resign the characteristic of their sex, modesty. To do otherwise than thus...
Page 191 - TALMA also plays many other parts, but, in these, he makes no great figure. He had a great aversion to old pieces, and as long as he preserved his sway at the theatre, very few, if any were performed. In fact, there are many in which he is below mediocrity. You will certainly expect that I should tell you what constitutes the talent of this performer. He is small in stature, thin in person, and rather ill-made; his arms and legs being bowed, which he takes care to conceal by the fulness of his garments....
Page 339 - At the expiration of seven years, it was terminated; and the Institute presented the result to the Legislative Body with the original table of the new measures. MECHAIN and DELAMBRE measured the angles of ninety triangles with the new reflecting circles; imagined by MAYER, and which BORDA had caused to be constructed. With these instruments, they made four observations of latitude at Dunkirk, Paris, Evaux, Carcassonne, and Barcelona; two bases measured near Melun and Perpignan, with rules of platina...
Page 507 - Edinensis, non typis mobilibus, ut vulga fieri solet: sed tabellis seu laminis fusis, excudebat. 8 The Stereotype mode of printing adopted by DIDOT is as follows. The page is first set up in moveable types; a mould or impression is then taken of the page with any suitable plastic material; and afterwards as many solid pages are cast from the mould as may be wanted. The plan adopted by GED and others seems to have been different. After setting up the page with moveable types, they soldered them together,...