The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies, Volume 2

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Macmillan and Company, limited, 1904 - Naples (Kingdom)

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Page 152 - États dont les gouvernements ont placé leur confiance et leur espoir en Elle seule, ayant acquis la conviction intime qu'il est nécessaire d'asseoir la marche à adopter par les Puissances dans leurs rapports mutuels sur les vérités sublimes que nous enseigne l'éternelle religion du Dieu Sauveur...
Page 152 - États respectifs , soit dans leurs relations politiques avec tout autre gouvernement, que les préceptes de cette religion sainte, préceptes de justice, de charité...
Page 152 - Conformément aux paroles des Saintes Écritures, qui ordonnent à tous les hommes de se regarder comme frères, les trois Monarques contractants demeureront unis par les liens d'une fraternité véritable et indissoluble; et se considérant comme compatriotes, Ils se prêteront, en toute occasion et en tout lieu, assistance, aide et secours; se regardant envers Leurs sujets et armées comme pères de famille, Ils les dirigeront dans le même esprit de fraternité dont Ils sont animés pour protéger...
Page 155 - The crown of thorns is to pierce his head. The thread denotes the cord to lead him to the gibbet, the ladder will aid him to mount. The leaves are nails to pierce his hands and feet.
Page 155 - The axe will separate his head from his body, as the wolf, who disturbs our pacific labours. The salt will prevent the corruption of his head, that it may last as a monument of the eternal infamy of despots. The pole will serve to put the skull of the tyrant upon. The furnace will burn his body. The shovel will scatter his ashes to the wind. The baracca will serve to prepare new tortures for the tyrant. The fountain will purify us from the vile blood we shall have shed. The linen will wipe away our...
Page 207 - INTERESTING FACTS relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples; the Capitulation of Paris in 1815; and the Second Restoration of the Bourbons: Original Letters from King Joachim to the Author, with some Account of the Author, and of his Persecution by the French Government. By Francis Macirone, late Aid-de-camp to King Joachim ; Knight of the Order of the Two Sicilies, fyc. fa. London: Ridgways, 1817. " Come, draw the curtain ; shew the picture.
Page 114 - A dwarf is as much a man as a giant; a small republic is no less a sovereign state than the most powerful kingdom.
Page 32 - This society has existed for several years, and many who adopted the drtss and language of republicans, secretly held the following doctrine : — " That Italy ought to be under one head ; — and that she should adopt, as far as circumstances would permit, a limited constitution of monarchy, and enter into a firm alliance and commercial intercourse with England.

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