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...IES, Philosophism on, to be extinguished, how. LIGNE, Prince de, death of. LILLE, Colonel Rouget de, Marseillese Hymn. LILLE, besieged. LINGUET, his ‘...

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...and made before Wynendael wood was the passage by which the Allies entered Lille. “Ah!” says Holtz (and some folks were very willing to listen to him)... ... counsels of Marlborough, it was said, the Prince of Savoy sat down before Lille, the capital of French Flanders, and commenced that siege, the most c... ...ains must go down. The English Duke took little part in that vast siege of Lille, which the Imperial Generalissimo pursued with all his force and vigo... ...iserable victims of the war? Meanwhile, gallantly as the operations before Lille had been conducted, the Allies had made but little progress, and ’twa... ...owns himself to be of the number, hinted that the Duke had his reasons why Lille should not be taken, and that he was paid to that end by the French K... ...was actually offered certain millions of crowns provided that the siege of Lille should be raised: that the Imperial army before it was without provis... ...ral won over an army six or seven times greater than his own, the siege of Lille must have been raised; and it must be remembered that our gallant lit... ...ENERAL WEBB WINS THE BATTLE OF WYNENDAEL. BY THE BESIEGERS AND BESIEGED of Lille, some of the most bril- liant feats of valor were performed that ever... ...t safety during the action, and joyfully reached the besieging camp before Lille. Major-General Cadogan, my Lord Duke’s Quarter-Mas- ter-General, (and...

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...nkind risen. The trenches of Thionville may shut: and what though those of Lille open? The Earth smiles not on us, nor the Heaven; but weeps and blear... ... Austria prospered, nor the Wooden Horse of Thionville bitten his hay; nor Lille City surrendered itself. The Lille trenches opened, on the 29th of th... ...pened. It was frightful, say all eye-witnesses; but it is ineffectual. The Lillers have risen to such temper; especially after these news from Argonne... ...y after these news from Argonne and the East. Not a Sans-indispensables in Lille that would surrender for a King’s ransom. Redhot balls rain, day and ... ...ermanent too, sticking in the wall, probably to this day. (Bombardement de Lille (in Hist. Parl. xx. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister... ...ch- duchess ‘two mortars explode and kill thirty persons. ’ It is in vain; Lille, often burning, is always quenched again; Lille will not yield. The v... ...o pleasur- able consciousness; rapidly, Dumouriez tending thitherward; and Lille too, black with ashes and smoulder, but jubilant skyhigh, flings its ... ...ier several years afterwards, ‘but shaves himself out of the splinter of a Lille bomb. ’ Quid multa, Why many words? The Invaders are in flight; Bruns... ...m the scene of action. Thus, through the hands of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to have gained, miracu- lously, like a...

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...Consolation Tours-Minieres, the correspondent, since 1794, of the Comte de Lille,—known elsewhere as the Baron des Tours-Minieres, and on records of t... ...a house, at any rate, courtesy of Collin in Scenes.—JB.] When the Comte de Lille became aware of this man’s character he no longer permitted him to ta... .... His traitorous connection with the intrigues of England and the Comte de Lille, won him the confidence of the old families attached to the cause now... ...e pi- ety, professing the utmost devotion to the interests of the Comte de Lille and a reverence for the memory of the insurgents who lost their lives... ...e 1794 has played a double part, who for eight years deceived the Comte de Lille and his adherents, and probably deceived at the same time the police ...

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...ess now from his deference. Some anxiety was felt just about this time for Lille, which it was feared the enemy would lay siege to. Boufflers went to ... ...smelt powder. M. de V endome, however, laughed at the idea of the siege of Lille, as something mad and ridiculous. Nev- ertheless, the town was invest... ... up near Ghent. The King wrote to him to go with his army to the relief of Lille. M. de V endome still delayed; another courier was sent, with the sam... ...ther courier, with orders to Monseigneur de Bourgogne, to lead the army to Lille, if M. de Vendome refused to do so. At this, M. de V endome awoke fro... ... to do so. At this, M. de V endome awoke from his lethargy. He set out for Lille, but took the longest road, and dawdled as long as he could on the wa... ...fered to bet four pistoles that there would be no general battle, and that Lille would be taken without being relieved. This strange proposition excit... ..., is a great proof of this. It was much remarked at Fontainebleau, just as Lille was in- vested, that, the city of Paris coming to harangue him on the... ...he showed no more interest in what was passing. When news was brought that Lille was invested, he turned on his heel before the letter announcing it h... ...me,” said he, smiling, as he arrived, “how would you do just now to get to Lille?” And at once made them acquainted with the investment. These things ...

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...Mr. Sterne, who had pro- 16 Henry Esmond – Book Three posed the garden at Lille, when my Lord Mohun and Esmond had their affair, was an Irishman too,... ...my heart. Y es—you did once, for a little, Harry, when you came back after Lille, and engag- ing with that murderer Mohun, and saving Frank’s life. I ...

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...rs, capital Bruges, are two provinces of Belgium. French Flanders, capital Lille, is the Departement du Nord of France. Douai, about twenty miles from... ...ille, is the Departement du Nord of France. Douai, about twenty miles from Lille, is the chief town of the arrondissement du Nord. 7 Balzac hold a mo...

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...the red cloak, “for you may plainly see she knows me!” “The executioner of Lille, the executioner of Lille!” cried Milady, a prey to insensate terror,... ...d, “I told you well that she would know me. Yes, I am the execu- tioner of Lille, and this is my history.” All eyes were fixed upon this man, whose wo... ...years of imprisonment, and to be branded. I was executioner of the city of Lille, as this woman has said. I was obliged to brand the guilty one; and h... ...her that I had imprinted upon my poor brother. “The day after my return to Lille, my brother in his turn succeeded in making his escape; I was accused... ...he had stolen everything, honor and happiness, my poor brother returned to Lille, and learning the sentence which had condemned me in his place, surre...

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...mander, poor Theobald Dillon, driven into a granary by them in the Town of Lille. And poor Gouvion: he who sat shiftless in that Insurrec- tion of Wom... ...oiceless in this blackbrowed mass, an inspired Tyrtaean Colonel, Rouget de Lille whom the Earth still holds, (A.D. 1836.) has translated into grim mel...

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...la belle Madame de Lavretsky was soon known from Chausee d’Antin to Rue de Lille. In those days— it was in 1836—there had not yet arisen the tribe of ...

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....”* *This picture, formerly in the possession of a wealthy manufacturer at Lille, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in th...

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... and after my son and nephew had made their first campaign at the siege of Lille, we had to join in the progress of the Court to Dunkirk and Lille to ...

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...ery was drawn every five days in different localities, at Bordeaux, Lyons, Lille, Strasburg, and Paris. The Paris lottery was drawn on the twenty-fift...

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...nslow’s eldest son, a mere boy, three days after he joined the army before Lille, and shot him like a dog. I turned over the letter about it in search...

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...ot fully aware of it on the other side, but I meant Dover. Ding, ding! T o the carriages, gentlemen the travellers. As- cend then, gentlemen the trave...

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...and made before Wynendael wood was the passage by which the Allies entered Lille. “Ah!” says Holtz (and some folks were very willing to listen to him)... ... counsels of Marlborough, it was said, the Prince of Savoy sat down before Lille, the capital of French Flanders, and commenced that siege, the most c... ...ains must go down. The English Duke took little part in that vast siege of Lille, which the Imperial Generalissimo pursued with all his force and vigo... ...iserable victims of the war? Meanwhile, gallantly as the operations before Lille had been conducted, the Allies had made but little progress, and ’twa... ...owns himself to be of the number, hinted that the Duke had his reasons why Lille should not be taken, and that he was paid to that end by the French K... ...was actually offered certain millions of crowns provided that the siege of Lille should be raised: that the Imperial army before it was without provis... ...ral won over an army six or seven times greater than his own, the siege of Lille must have been raised; and it must be remembered that our gallant lit... ...ENERAL WEBB WINS THE BATTLE OF WYNENDAEL. BY THE BESIEGERS AND BESIEGED of Lille, some of the most bril- liant feats of valor were performed that ever... ...t safety during the action, and joyfully reached the besieging camp before Lille. Major-General Cadogan, my Lord Duke’s Quarter-Mas- ter-General, (and...

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...Henry James CHAPTER VII From Leon Verdier, in Paris, to Prosper Gobain, at Lille. September 28th. My Dear Prosper—It is a long time since I have given...

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... in managing Finance and Parlements, for he has been Intendant at Metz, at Lille; King’s Procureur at Douai. A man of weight, connected with the money... ...mander, poor Theobald Dillon, driven into a granary by them in the Town of Lille. And poor Gouvion: he who sat shiftless in that Insurrection of Women... ...ce- less in this blackbrowed mass, an inspired Tyrtaean Colonel, Rouget de Lille whom the Earth still holds, (A.D. 1836.) has translated into grim mel... ...nkind risen. The trenches of Thionville may shut: and what though those of Lille open? The Earth smiles not on us, nor the Heaven; but weeps and blear... ... Austria prospered, nor the Wooden Horse of Thionville bitten his hay; nor Lille City surrendered itself. The Lille trenches opened, on the 29th of th... ...ned. It was frightful, say all eye-witnesses; but it is inef- fectual. The Lillers have risen to such temper; especially after these news from Argonne... ...after these news from Argonne and the East. Not a Sans-indispens- ables in Lille that would surrender for a King’s ransom. Redhot balls rain, day and ... ...ermanent too, sticking in the wall, probably to this day. (Bombardement de Lille (in Hist. Parl. xx. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister... ...rchduch- ess ‘two mortars explode and kill thirty persons.’ It is in vain; Lille, often burning, is always quenched again; Lille will not yield. The v...

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...nce Good fruit is gather’d. Vengeance soon should come, Had Ghent and Douay, Lille and Bruges power; And vengeance I of heav’n’s great Judge implore. ... ...42. Root.] Hugh Capet, ancestor of Philip IV. v. 46. Had Ghent and Douay, Lille and Bruges power.] These cities had lately been seized by Philip ...

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...the like frenzy, dis- persed themselves through Menin, Comines, V erviers, Lille, no- where encountered opposition; and how, through almost the whole ...

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...t and fled at full gallop, cutting bridges behind him, towards Bapaume and Lille. And so there we have the head of one faction, who had just made hims... ...nd two days after sent them Suffolk’s barber, one Jean Carnet, a native of Lille, to testify more freely of his sentiments. “ As I speak French,” said...

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...f Their Hands assembled; from the East and the West they drew — Baltimore, Lille, and Essen, Brummagem, Clyde, and Crewe. And some were black from the...

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...ristian land 6 that good fruit is rarely plucked therefrom. But if Douai, Lille, Ghent, and Bruges had power, soon would there be vengeance on it; 7 ...

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...nce Good fruit is gather’d. Vengeance soon should come, Had Ghent and Douay, Lille and Bruges power; And vengeance I of heav’n’s great Judge implore. ... ...42. Root.] Hugh Capet, ancestor of Philip IV. v. 46. Had Ghent and Douay, Lille and Bruges power.] These cities had lately been seized by Philip ...

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... in managing Finance and Parlements, for he has been Intendant at Metz, at Lille; King’s Procureur at Douai. A man of weight, connected with the money...

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...So that good fruit is seldom gathered from it; But if Douay and Ghent, and Lille and Bruges Had Power, soon vengeance would be taken on it; And th...