 | Mignet (M., François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) - 1846 - 450 Seiten
...reign of sixteen years and a half, spent in endeavouring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed to him a revolution. He was...of becoming a reformer-king before it broke out, or of'becoming a constitutional king afterwards. He is, perhaps, the only prince who, having no other... | |
 | Mignet (M., François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) - 1873 - 462 Seiten
...reign of sixteen years and a half, spent in endeavouring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed to him a revolution. He was...constitutional king afterwards. He is, perhaps, the only priace who, having no other passion, had not that of power, and who united the two qualities which... | |
 | Jeanne Louise H. Campan - 1883 - 436 Seiten
...half, spent in endeavouring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed him a revolution. He was better calculated than any of them to prevent or terminate it ; for he was capable of becoming a reformerking before it broke out, or of becoming... | |
 | Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) - 1884 - 436 Seiten
...half, spent in endeavouring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed him a revolution. He was better calculated than any of them to prevent or terminate it ; for he was capable of becoming a reformer king before it broke out, or of becoming... | |
 | Frangois Anguste Marie Alexia Mignet, Mignet (M., François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) - 1902 - 484 Seiten
...reign of sixteen years and a half, spent in endeavouring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed to him a revolution. He was...God and love of the people. He perished, the victim ot passions which he did not share; of those of the persons about him, to which he was a stranger,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 602 Seiten
...of six1793 teen years and a half, spent in endeavoring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed to him a revolution. He was...it broke out, or of becoming a constitutional king afterward. He is, perhaps, the only prince who, having no other passion, had not that of power, and... | |
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At ten minutes after ten he had ceased to live. Thus perished, at the age of thirty-nine, after a reign of sixteen years and a half, spent in endeavouring to do good, the best but weakest of monarchs. His ancestors bequeathed to him a revolution. He was... 