 | 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...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 lives. I fhall only... | |
 | Voltaire - 1761 - 308 trang
...not repeat the circumftances attending this execrable tragedy, which are known to all the world, as that one half of the nation butchered the other,, with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the. ciher, while the king himfelf fired from a window upon the unhappy wretches who were flying for their... | |
 | John Thelwall - 1795 - 704 trang
...this famous champion of party do? he bellows forth, mad as one of the heroes in Lee's mad Tragedies, with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the other, and fwears he can never fleep in his bed again till original toryifin reigns triumphant over the world,... | |
 | 1861 - 894 trang
...their political origin, when, to use the language of Voltaire, half France rose against the other half with a dagger in one hand and a crucifix in the other. On his deathbed Henry the Second had warned his sons against the designs of the house of Lorraine,... | |
 | 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... | |
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French 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... 