 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 1006 páginas
...nothing more magnanimous than the resolution which a monarch look who has reigned in our times, (Lous XIV.) to bury himself under the ruins of his throne...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him ; he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infam y never." Maret with earnestness represented,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1842 - 1130 páginas
...nothing more magnanimous than the resolution which a monarch took who has reigned in our times, (Lous XIV.,) to bury himself under the ruins of his throne...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him ; he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never." Maret with earnestness represented,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 524 páginas
...Caulaincourt had represented to Napoleon by letter, on the 31st of January, the importance of rpceiving precise and positive instructions: " the fate of France,"...to the safety of the state, which would otherwise fall with its monarch. " Well, be it so !" said the Emperor, after a pause: " let Caulaincourt sign... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1851 - 366 páginas
...aloud, " I know nothing more magnanimous than the resolution which a monarch took who has reigned in our times (Louis XIV.) to bury himself under the ruins...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him, he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never." Sustained by such a lofty resolution,... | |
 | Michael Rafter - 1854 - 852 páginas
...aloud, " I know nothing more magnanimous than the resolution which a monarch took who has reigned in our times (Louis XIV.) to bury himself under the ruins...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him, he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never." Sustained by such a lofty resolution,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1854 - 884 páginas
...know nothing more magnanimous, than a resolution which a monarch took, who has reigned in our times, to bury himself under the ruins of his throne, rather...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him. He knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never." In silence he closed the book.... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 386 páginas
...— " I know nothing more magnanimousthantheresolution which a monarch took who has reigned in our times, (Louis XIV.), to bury himself under the ruins...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him; he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never." Maret with earnestness represented... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1861 - 676 páginas
...resolution which a monarch took, who reigned in our time, to bury himself under the ruins of his house rather than accept conditions unworthy of a king. He had a mind too lofty to descend lower than fortune had sunk him. He knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, infamy never." " But," said... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1870 - 388 páginas
...— " I know nothing more magnanimous than theresolution which a monarch took who has reigned in our times, (Louis XIV.), to bury himself under the ruins...lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him; he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never." Maret with earnestness represented... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1888 - 334 páginas
...aloud, " I know nothing moro magnanimous than the resolution which a monarch took who has reigned in our times (Louis XIV.) to bury himself under the ruins...rather than accept conditions unworthy of a king. Iie had a mind too lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him, he knew well that courage... | |
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XIV.,) to bury himself under the ruins of his throne rather than accept conditions unworthy of a king. He had a mind too lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him ; he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never. 
