This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xviii. Scarcity of Data for a History of Francia's Times.--Capricious Character of his Government.--His Jealousy of all Persons of Intelligence.--He gives a Levee.--Unnatural Conduct towards his Father.--Treatment of his Natural Children.--Religious Belief.--Banishment of Mendez.--The Prisons. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xviii. Scarcity of Data for a History of Francia's Times.--Capricious Character of his Government.--His Jealousy of all Persons of Intelligence.--He gives a Levee.--Unnatural Conduct towards his Father.--Treatment of his Natural Children.--Religious Belief.--Banishment of Mendez.--The Prisons.--The Chamber of Truth.--Tevego a Place of Exile.--Executions.--Persecution of the Spaniards.--Forced Contributions.--Marriage discountenanced; forbidden except with Negroes.--Francia makes himself the Head of the Church.--Question of his Insanity.--His Motives in closing the Ports and excluding Foreigners. rom this time till the death of the Dictator, there is A little to be said that can properly be called history; no living, moving diorama in which individual men occupy the foreground, each acting the part to which his talents, his education, or his ambition, lead him. It is only a dark level, a gloomy stationary scene; and the only figures that appear on it, save only the sombre Dictator, whose presence clouds it all, are the victims whose clanking chains we shall see and whose death-groans we shall hear. The country was reduced so entirely to the will of one man, that, having no foreign policy, no connections abroad, no change within, and no other incidents of interest than the arrest and execution of suspected or obnoxious persons, the country had no history except the cruelties of Francia. For all the rest it was the same one day, one week, month, or year as another. There was neither social intercourse nor domestic confidence. Nor did it seem that a change would ever come. The tyrant lived much beyond the allotted age of man, and to the last evinced the same inflexible love of persecution and the same pleasure in causing fear and...
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