Switzerland: or, A journal of a tour and residence in that country, in the years 1817, 1818 and 1819: followed by an historical sketch on the manners and customs of ancient and modern Helvetia ...J. Murray, 1822 - Switzerland |
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... D'Erlach - Barons impoverished by War , alienate their feudal Rights CHAP . XIII .-- Growth of civil Liberty - Terrible Pestilence - Flagellants - The Jews - Berne conquers the Simnaethal - John of Bubenberg banished - Re- called ...
... D'Erlach - Barons impoverished by War , alienate their feudal Rights CHAP . XIII .-- Growth of civil Liberty - Terrible Pestilence - Flagellants - The Jews - Berne conquers the Simnaethal - John of Bubenberg banished - Re- called ...
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... D'Erlach - Barons impoverished by War , alienate their feudal Rights . A. D. 1353 . THE duke , unremitting in his endea- vours to subdue Zug and Glaris , and to punish Zurich and the Waldstetten , brought his grievances before his liege ...
... D'Erlach - Barons impoverished by War , alienate their feudal Rights . A. D. 1353 . THE duke , unremitting in his endea- vours to subdue Zug and Glaris , and to punish Zurich and the Waldstetten , brought his grievances before his liege ...
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... d'Erlach appeared amongst them , himself a warrior , long tried in the field . The elder burghers remembered with ... d'Erlach till their dying breath . Word having been sent to the Wald- stetten , nine hundred men passed the Brunig ...
... d'Erlach appeared amongst them , himself a warrior , long tried in the field . The elder burghers remembered with ... d'Erlach till their dying breath . Word having been sent to the Wald- stetten , nine hundred men passed the Brunig ...
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... D'ERLACH . 131 of the other allies of the Bernese assisted them in this extremity . Their army , six thousand strong , left the town by moonlight , with a priest carrying the consecrated wafer before them , while the wo- men and old men ...
... D'ERLACH . 131 of the other allies of the Bernese assisted them in this extremity . Their army , six thousand strong , left the town by moonlight , with a priest carrying the consecrated wafer before them , while the wo- men and old men ...
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... D'Erlach and his brave men followed in close order ; a part , however , of his rear guard , panic struck , having made a retrograde motion , " Friends , " he exclaimed , " the victory is ours - the cowards have left us . " The struggle ...
... D'Erlach and his brave men followed in close order ; a part , however , of his rear guard , panic struck , having made a retrograde motion , " Friends , " he exclaimed , " the victory is ours - the cowards have left us . " The struggle ...
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Page 400 - ... people*. The efforts of some public-spirited and enlightened citizens, such as de Luc among the representans, and de Saussure among the negatifs, to restore cordiality, proved ineffectual. The latter intended to reform the system of public education instituted by Calvin, and introduce it in the study of modern sciences ; but his project, received with enthusiasm by a certain class, was treated with derision by another, as having mere popularity for its object. He only succeeded in establishing...
Page 395 - C'est de Rousseau le digne et noir palais. Là se tapit ce sombre énergumène, Cet ennemi de la nature humaine. Pétri d'orgueil et dévoré de fiel ; Il fuit le monde, et craint de voir le ciel : Et cependant, sa triste et vilaine âme Du dieu d'amour a ressenti la flamme ; Il a trouvé, pour charmer son ennui, Une beauté digne en effet de lui : C'était Caron amoureux de Mégère.
Page 396 - L'ingratitude est son premier mérite. Par grandeur d'âme il hait ses bienfaiteurs. Versez sur lui les plus nobles faveurs , II frémira qu'un homme ait la puissance; La volonté, la coupable impudence De l'avilir en lui faisant du bien. Il tient beaucoup du naturel d'un chien; II jappe et fuit, et mord qui le caresse.
Page 32 - Italy, and the adjacent provinces,... " very faint vestiges of the Roman policy, jurisprudence, arts and " literature, remained. New forms of government, new laws, new " manners, new dresses, new languages, and new names of men " and countries, were everywhere introduced.
Page 51 - The king or general who led them to conquest, continuing still to be the head of the colony, had, of course, the largest portion allotted to him. Having thus acquired the means of rewarding past services, as well as of gaining...
Page 336 - ... prince, whose interference he was endeavouring to obtain in the affairs of Geneva, by setting him against Calvin. Gruet was tried for this crime, condemned, and beheaded. Early in life, Calvin had published a book, much celebrated in its day, on Predestination and Divine Providence ; the doctrine of which he maintained throughout his life, while acting in direct opposition to it — that is, asserting that men cannot possibly be otherwise than they were intended beforehand, and, at the same time,...
Page 395 - L'aversion pour la terre et les cieux Tient lieu d'amour à ce couple odieux. Si quelquefois, dans leurs ardeurs secrètes, Leurs os pointus joignent leurs deux squelettes , Dans leurs transports ils se pâment soudain Du seul plaisir de nuire au genre humain. Notre Euménide avait alors en tête De diriger la foudre et la tempête Devers Genève.
Page 569 - Je sais bien que le régime de ces démocraties est accompagné de nombre d'inconvéniens, et qu'il ne soutient pas l'examen aux yeux de la raison; mais enfin il est établi depuis des siècles, il a son origine dans le climat, la nature, les besoins et les habitudes primitives des...
Page 337 - Geneva, who dabbled in theology, was made to beg pardon on his knees before the consistory, for saying that Calvin might, after all, be in an error, and should not be ashamed to acknowledge it, as St. Augustine had done before. Others were censured publicly, or underwent slight punishments, for differing on this point with the sovereign pontiff of • Mr.