【實用書籍app】The French Revolution|最夯免費app-綠色工廠好玩App

Fragment: Such a changed France have we; and a changed Louis. Changed, truly; and further than thou yet seest! To the eye of History many things, in that sick room of Louis, are now visible, which to the Courtiers there present were invisible. For indeed it is well said, 'in every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.' To Newton and to Newton's Dog Diamond, what a different pair of Universes; while the painting on the optical retina of both was, most likely, the same! Let the Reader here, in this sick room of Louis, endeavour to look with the mind too.

Time was when men could (so to speak) of a given man, by nourishing and decorating him with fit appliances, to the due pitch, make themselves a King, almost as the Bees do; and what was still more to the purpose , loyally obey him when made. The man so nourished and decorated , thenceforth named royal, does verily bear rule; and is said, and even thought, to be, for example, 'prosecuting conquests in Flanders,' when he lets himself like luggage be carried thither: and no light luggage; covering miles of road. For he has his unblushing Chateauroux, with her band boxes and rouge pots, at his side; so that, at every new station , a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has not only his Maison Bouche, and Valetaille without end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); all mounted in wagons, tumbrils, second hand chaises, sufficient not to conquer Flanders, but the patience of the world. With such a flood of loud jingling appurtenances does he lumber along, prosecuting his conquests in Flanders; wonderful to behold. So nevertheless it was and had been: to some solitary thinker it might seem strange; but even to him inevitable, not unnatural.