Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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^ one of contemp-tuous anger; and the prince, sentenced to imprisonment for life,departed to the fortress of Ham. But the bringing home of theemperors ashes also failed of its object. When La Belle Poule,which bore them (Plate XIIL), arrived at Cherbourg, on Novem-ber 30, Tliiers was no longer minister. The ceremony of depositingthe ashes beneath the dome of the InvaUdes passed off coldly, likethe winters day on which it occurred; and the lofty words thatcelebrated the return home of the master of the world contrastedpainfully with the present humiliation of France, and emphasizedanew the littleness of the dynasty of July.
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2 2 0 i a. . X 0 ^ «c _s s « tf «( c %> 0 ■^ Ü 0 e ^ K — kw z r ^t P ib ; -^ aA CHAPTER IX. THE CI 11 IM II. CIVILIZATION has been developing itself in three main direr-tions, during the nineteenth century, — the politico-nalinnal,the social, and the spiritual; and the results nianifesti-d hy tla* lastare not less astonishing than those exhibited by tlie two fonnt-r. Re-ligion and the church, which to the eighteenth century seemed tooccupy a position beyond which the age had passed l)y the progressof reason, and to have been resistlessly swept away by the Kevolu-tiou, were introduced anew by Napoleon hito the organL^m <)f liisempire, yet only as a useful instrument of police. They now awoketo a new existence, and showed their living force by an almost un-broken series of surprising successes. The fearful visitations whichcame upon mankind throughout Europ

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