]
[Footnote T: The goddess of Reason, enthroned in Paris, November 10th,
1793.
[Footnote T: The goddess of Reason, enthroned in Paris, November 10th,
1793.
William Wordsworth
the British ensign.
"On the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, James I. issued a
proclamation that _all subjects of this isle and the kingdom of Great
Britain should bear in the main-top the red cross commonly called St.
George's Cross, and the white cross commonly called St. Andrew's
Cross, joined together according to the form made by our own heralds. _
This was the first Union Jack. "
'Encyclopaedia Britannica' (ninth edition), article "Flag. "--Ed. ]
[Footnote S: In the Isle of Wight. Wordsworth spent a month of the
summer of 1793 there, with William Calvert. (See the Advertisement to
'Guilt and Sorrow', vol. i. p. 77. )--Ed.
]
[Footnote T: The goddess of Reason, enthroned in Paris, November 10th,
1793. --Ed. ]
[Footnote U: Jeanne-Marie Phlipon--Madame Roland--was guillotined on the
8th of November 1793.
"Arrived at the foot of the scaffold, she asked for pen and paper _to
write the strange thoughts that were rising in her_: a remarkable
request; which was refused. Looking at the Statue of Liberty which
stands there, she says bitterly: _O Liberty, what things are done in
thy name! _ . . . Like a white Grecian Statue, serenely complete," adds
Carlyle, "she shines in that black wreck of things,--long memorable. "
'French Revolution', vol. iii. book v. chap. 2.
Madame Roland's apostrophe was
'O Liberte, que de crimes l'on commet en ton nom! '
Ed.
"On the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, James I. issued a
proclamation that _all subjects of this isle and the kingdom of Great
Britain should bear in the main-top the red cross commonly called St.
George's Cross, and the white cross commonly called St. Andrew's
Cross, joined together according to the form made by our own heralds. _
This was the first Union Jack. "
'Encyclopaedia Britannica' (ninth edition), article "Flag. "--Ed. ]
[Footnote S: In the Isle of Wight. Wordsworth spent a month of the
summer of 1793 there, with William Calvert. (See the Advertisement to
'Guilt and Sorrow', vol. i. p. 77. )--Ed.
]
[Footnote T: The goddess of Reason, enthroned in Paris, November 10th,
1793. --Ed. ]
[Footnote U: Jeanne-Marie Phlipon--Madame Roland--was guillotined on the
8th of November 1793.
"Arrived at the foot of the scaffold, she asked for pen and paper _to
write the strange thoughts that were rising in her_: a remarkable
request; which was refused. Looking at the Statue of Liberty which
stands there, she says bitterly: _O Liberty, what things are done in
thy name! _ . . . Like a white Grecian Statue, serenely complete," adds
Carlyle, "she shines in that black wreck of things,--long memorable. "
'French Revolution', vol. iii. book v. chap. 2.
Madame Roland's apostrophe was
'O Liberte, que de crimes l'on commet en ton nom! '
Ed.
