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A reaction set in, a revolution was initiated against him, his troops deserted, he was captured and imprisoned, and on January 24, 1865, a superior council of government was formed by the insurgents, presided over by General Benigno Filomeno de Rojas.
The following short extracts from the letters of Colonel Burr to his daughter, while he was imprisoned in Richmond, will serve to show the state of his mind under circumstances thus oppressive and mortifying. "Richmond, March 27, 1807. "My military escort having arrived at Fredericksburgh on our way to Washington, there met a special messenger, with orders to convey me to this place.
Watch! watch! a great blow is preparing is ready to burst; if you do not prevent it by a counter blow more sudden, more terrible, the people and liberty are annihilated." The king and queen, in the apartments where they were virtually imprisoned, read these angry and inflammatory appeals, and both now felt that no further time was to be lost in attempting to effect their escape.
The Dean of Exeter, Dr. Thomas Reynolds, was appointed to succeed him, but was imprisoned in the Marshalsea, on the accession of Elizabeth, before he had been consecrated, and died there in 1559.
Suddenly, by that strange power of sympathy which the unselfish possess, she understood the man, understood Austen's patience with him and affection for him. Suddenly she had pierced the hard layers of the outer shell, and had heard the imprisoned spirit crying with a small persistent voice, a spirit stifled for many years and starved and yet it lived and struggled still.
"Three things, my friend may I offer you a pinch of snuff No? Ah well!..." And with the graceful gesture of an accomplished dandy, Sir Percy flicked off a grain of dust from his immaculate Mechlin ruffles. "Three things," he continued quietly; "an imprisoned Queen, about to be tried for her life, the temperament of a Frenchman some of them and the idiocy of mankind generally.
The parallel of this vast plateau was almost confounded with tropical latitudes, and, during certain months in summer, the sun, in passing to the zenith, darted its perpendicular rays there. There was, therefore, an enormous quantity of imprisoned heat in this earth, of which the subsoil preserved the damp.
All honest men are horrified at the way these commissioners from Paris are carrying things on, and would be glad enough to aid in getting anyone out of their hands." "But the danger is greater, in our case, than ordinary," Jean went on. "You heard that my father had been imprisoned?" "We heard it, captain, and savage it made us, as you may guess.
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender. The King sent from Memphis the order to take the vanquished men to the tongue of land where they now were, and could easily be imprisoned between the sea and the Sebennytic inland lake.
When the imprisoned forces tried to escape at one spot, more force was applied and more bands and more rivets brutally held them down, and were then retained as a necessary part of the whole. On the surface is absolutism in glittering completeness, and beneath that chaos.
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