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On entering office Francia coolly seated himself in Cæsar’s chair, leaving that of Pompey for his associate. This action showed the difference in force of character between the two men. In fact, Francia quickly took possession of all the powers of government. He was a true Cæsar.
Only the failures are used to point the great historical moral, and if Bonaparte had died in the Tuileries in all honour and glory, he would have ranked with Frederick or Francia as a wholly true man. Mr. Carlyle would then no more have declared the execution of Palm 'a palpable, tyrannous, murderous injustice, than he declares it of the execution of Katte or Schlubhut.
When it was decided that the Vikings should settle in Francia and be subjects of the Frankish king, Rollo was told that he must kiss the foot of Charles in token that he would be the king's vassal. The haughty Viking refused. "Never," said he, "will I bend my knee before any man, and no man's foot will I kiss."
If one portion of the state governments should be republican, like Vermont, where suffrage is open to all and another portion should be oligarchies, like South Carolina, and the other slave states another portion limited monarchies, like England another portion ecclesiastical, like that of the Pope of Rome, or that of the ancient Jews and another portion absolute despotisms, like that of Nicholas, in Russia, or that of Francia, in Paraguay, and the same body, and only the same body, of electors, that sustained each of these governments at home, should be represented in the national government, each state would send into the national legislature the representatives of its own peculiar system of government; and the national legislature, instead of being composed of the representatives of any one theory, or principle of government, would be made up of the representatives of all the various theories of government that prevailed in the different states from the extreme of democracy to the extreme of despotism.
Measures such as this constituted a sufficiently ominous beginning; they provided, indeed, an only too true augury of what was to come and from what species of wrongs the unfortunate country was doomed to suffer for generations. In justice to Francia himself it must be said that he took no part in these first minor acts of oppression.
Indeed, the situation of those Spaniards who still remained in Paraguay was now pitiable in the extreme. Persecuted on all sides by the high officials, they could expect, in the face of an example such as this, scant consideration from the populace. In the year 1814 Francia determined that the time had come when he could dispense with the services of his colleague, Yegros.
Indians and half-castes vegetated in ignorance and docility, and the handful of whites quaked in terror, while the inexorable Francia tightened the reins of commercial and industrial restriction and erected forts along the frontiers to keep out the pernicious foreigner.
I should at the first glance have supposed it to be his, but the head of the Virgin is unmistakably Francia. Helena stands behind the Virgin, in allusion to the legend which connects her with the history of the Kings. In a picture by Garofalo, the star shining above is attended by angels bearing the instruments of the Passion, while St.
"The priests and religion," he said, "serve more to make men believe in the devil than in God." Of the leading principle of Francia’s political system we have already spoken. It had been the policy of the old Jesuit missions to isolate the people and keep them in strict obedience to the priesthood, and Francia adopted a similar policy.
If with Turner I were to rank the historical painters as landscapists, estimating rather the power they show, than the actual value of the landscape they produced, I should class those, whose landscapes I have studied, in some such order as this at the side of the page: associating with the landscape of Perugino that of Francia and Angelico, and the other severe painters of religious subjects.
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