| Voltaire - 1761 - 304 trang
...not repeat the circumftances attending this execrable tragedy, which are known to all the world, at that one half of the nation butchered the other, with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the other, while the king himfelf fired from a window upon the unhappy wretches who were flying for their... | |
| Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1904 - 342 trang
...nation. repeat the circumstances attending this execrable tragedy, which are known to all the world, that one half of the nation butchered the other, with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the other, while the king himself fired from a window upon the unhappy wretches who were flying for their... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2003 - 406 trang
...butchered them by thousands — both sexes and all ages." He echoes the indignation of Francois Voltaire, "Half of the nation butchered the other, with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the other."138 "Children were brained against the wall," MT's description of the fanaticism was probably... | |
| Voltaire - 1901 - 632 trang
...History. repeat the circumstances attending this execrable tragedy, which are known to all the world, that one half of the nation butchered the other, with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the other, while the king himself fired from a window upon the unhappy wretches who were flying for their... | |
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