The Revolution has damaged the ducal crown and the crest, which was a palm-tree vert with fruit or.
Ignorant of the great revolution which was just taking place, and not perceiving the influence it was to have upon my fate, I expected to return to Paris to resume my legal studies.
In opposing the policy that caused the American Revolution Fox and Burke were of one mind.
After the outbreak of the French Revolution he differed from Burke, and resolutely opposed Pitt's policy of interference by armed force.
For want of a proper attention to this circumstance, some historians have considered the conduct of the Tories in promoting the revolution as an instance of great inconsistency.
He accepted the task, and soon organized a system of agencies which, in four years, brought about an entire revolution in the condition of the schools in the State.
The plan for the establishment of a second college in Connecticut was not carried into effect until after the time of the political and religious revolution which secured the adoption of a State Constitution in 1818.
At the opening of the Revolution there were one hundred and fifty vessels that sailed from Nantucket; but at the close of the war one hundred and thirty-four of these had been captured and fifteen more wrecked.
But the Revolution put a stop to a continuance of this marvellous growth, and during the following eight years in the struggle for liberty, decay, fire, and the English did fatal destruction to the vessels in Buzzard's Bay.
Virgil, the Bishop of Saltzburg, was condemned by the church, for having dared to maintain the existence of the antipodes; Gallileo suffered the most cruel persecutions, for asserting that the sun did not make its revolution round the earth.
Before Copernicus, there was no one who did not believe that the earth was stationary, that the sun described his annualrevolution round it.
That raid, quickly suppressed as it was, wrought a revolution in Virginian feeling and sentiment.
She tells me she thinks the book will work a revolution in science, giving us a new foundation to build upon.
Shortly before the outbreak of the revolution of July, he gave a sumptuous ball here in honor of Neapolitan notabilities then visiting Paris.
During theRevolution the Cathedral was sadly desecrated.
The Revolution found the edifice unfinished, and Napoleon I.
The majority of the old Revolution Parliament, however, were still sound Whigs; and it was resolved to summon it once more.
The recent commission on taxation in Massachusetts thus treats of it: "It proposes virtually a radical change in the ownership of land, and therefore a revolution in the entire social body.
The primate, who, as all the others, had sworn fealty to Matilda, refused to perform this ceremony; but his opposition was overcome by an expedient equally dishonorable with the other steps by which this revolution was effected.
And it was not long ere this secret revolution in the sentiments of men produced, first violent convulsions in the state, then an evident alteration in the maxims of government.
It was crime sufficient in an Englishman to be opulent, or noble, or powerful; and the policy of the king, concurring with the rapacity of foreign adventurers, produced almost a total revolution in the landed property of the kingdom.
Henry, in order to prevent this alternate revolution of concessions and encroachments, sent William, then archbishop of Canterbury, to remonstrate with the court of Rome against those abuses, and to assert the liberties of the English church.
But affairs were not yet fully ripe for therevolution projected.
Even the Russian revolution aroused only a passive, almost academic interest, until Lenin and Trotsky referred specifically to the question of Irish freedom.
The revolution of February drove him to revolt; but do not think that he was consistent with himself, and that he was much afflicted by the death of the Republic!
When the Russian Revolution occurred there was but little response to the revolutionary contagion, which had, nevertheless, affected Europe on the previous occasions of similar social upheavals.
While the revolution was being prepared behind the curtain, the President was holding night sessions of the municipal council.
Their desires become hopes, their hopes beliefs; they dream incessantly of a revolution which may come possibly, but most assuredly not when they expect it.
The revolution of July, which Pascal approved, roused all the fanatical wrath of Joseph.
She measured the greatness of the love she supposed him to feel by the revolution that love had evidently made in his nature.
And he prepared himself for the day when some future revolution might enable him to return evil for evil.
The revolution of 1830 had just occurred, but it had not given Jean Oullier the opportunity he craved to put these evil designs into execution.
In his feverish impatience it seemed to him that the sun of the morrow would never dawn; and he was profiting by the time the earth consumed in making its revolution to give a lesson in military tactics to the young men about him.
As a man, he is from sixty to sixty-two years old, and he belongs to that iron race which fought the wars of the Revolution and the Empire.
After the revolution of Eighteen Hundred Thirty, the church of Saint Genevieve was again taken from the priests.
One writer calls it "the outburst of a tremendous revolution in literature.
Here the spirits of Cromwell and Frederick hovered; here that pitiful and pitiable long line of ghostly partakers in the Revolution answered to his roll-call.
But the spirit of revolution was at work; and in one year after, a mob sacked this beautiful building, burned its pews, destroyed its altar, and wrought havoc with its ecclesiastical furniture.
Papers in the United States argued for a revolution in Panama.
The effects of this industrial revolution are far reaching.
The verification to be made in Constantinople should advise thee that the revolution to which I referred is not ripe for publication to the world.
Old placeholders go out; new favorites come in; and not seldom the revolution reaches the highest official circles of the government.
It would seem to have declined in France with the glory of Louis XIV, and not to have survived the Revolution in England.
As you say gaming is an image of war, the sudden turns of success are easily discernible; the advances of victory or ill luck, make a strange revolution in the blood.
Shortly after the Revolution of 1688, one or two packs of cards appeared with subjects relating to the misgovernment of James II, and the birth of his son the Prince of Wales.
The following passage relative to the change of manners which succeeded the Revolution is quoted by Mons.
I did not say a word about the capabilities of the soil if, as part and parcel of a political and social revolutionon the grandest scale, we all took to spade husbandry.
It is also mere justice to Darwin to say that this "lasting and unquestioned" revolution is, in a very real sense, his work.
The excesses of the French Revolution were not readily overlooked by the conservative elements in Germany.
The masses were fighting to unseat kings, whose dogma of "Divine-right" had by the French Revolution been shown to be only insidious political quackery, in the past sustained largely by the sword.
Also, the very memory of the frightful excesses of the French Revolutionstill shocked the conservative political element of Europe.
One final word: Revolution means change; and in this sense the French Revolution is important.
Napoleon said things could not go on as they had been doing, in Prussia," wrote Bismarck, "otherwise there would soon be an uprising in Berlin and a revolution in the whole country.
All the Revolution means is an opportunity for a man of talents to show what he can do.
However, it was not to be a French Revolution in the sense of mob-rule.
By Autumn, the forces of Revolution spent themselves and Metternich drove the rebels before him, as the hurricane blows chaff.
He was a strong man himself and he was guilty of gross ambitions in his rise to power, but on the whole Bismarck stood for self-possession and for manly audacity, certainly not the French Revolution type of audacity.
When, however, he had become its leader, through the great politico-military struggle, he brought about the results vainly fought for by the patriots in the revolution of 1848.
All authority was now overthrown; and as one writer adds, "the most daring enterprise of the Revolution remains to be chronicled: the storming of Heaven!
Thus after the Revolutionwe find a series of favours given to colonial trade.
After the Revolution Great Britain was not regardless of her exiled children.
He had just completed his apprenticeship, and was engaged to a very pretty girl, when the Revolution broke out.
When the American Revolution broke out, alone of his family he was true to the British flag.
A revolution in Scotland followed, and the superstitious populace, looking backward, concluded that the earthquake had been meant as a warning which they had not been able to interpret.
The periods of revolution and rotation have since appeared not to be exactly the same.
Later observations seem to show that Mercury’s periods of rotation and revolution are not the same, but nearly so.
This will be clearly true whenever the rates of the revolution differ by unity: e.
Their perturbations would resemble those caused by an unknown exterior planet, but with this difference that the period of the disturbance would be exactly that of the disturbed planet’s own period of revolution round the Sun.
In cases like these, where the two bodies approach in only a limited number of places in their orbits the two periods of revolution are called commensurate, because their ratio is expressed by a simple fraction.
This is true whenever the periods of revolution differ by two, e.
Though its orbitalrevolution is performed direct, its rotation apparently takes place backward, in a plane tilted about 35° to its orbital course.
An interior revolution was then going on in the depths of the human heart.
He had not long to wait for deliverance; an important revolutionwas effected in the reformer's mind; and again it was the doctrine of justification by faith that gave him victory.
This prince seems to have anticipated the times of the Reformation; so that had this great revolution taken place during his reign, the whole of France might have become protestant.
Such facts demonstrate that the great revolution of the sixteenth century was a work of God.
We are about to see this great revolution taking possession of the political life of the world.
A salutary revolution in the Church will never proceed from philosophical views and mere human opinions.
Every revolution should be accomplished in the mind before it is carried out externally.
We have seen how he represented the contrast between Christ and Antichrist (the pope),[386] and thus ranked among the most influential organs of the revolution that was transforming the nations.
An immense revolutionwas preparing in all the empire.
This school, founded by Frederick, and quickened by Luther, was the centre of an immense revolution which regenerated the Church, and impressed on it a real and living unity far superior to the apparent unity of Rome.
Now terminated the revolution in Luther's mind that had begun at the period of his return from the Wartburg.
