 | William Russell - 1839 - 696 pages
...efforts, have found no elements of a religious war. But the assembly decreed that the priests should swear to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the civil constitution of the clergy. The rer fusal of this oath was to lead to the appointing... | |
 | William Russell - 1841 - 690 pages
...efforts, have found no elements of a religious war. But the assembly decreed that the priests should swear to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the civil constitution of the clergy. The refusal of this oath was to lead to the appointing... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...Jacobins became the most powerful ; the adoption of the new constitution by the king ; the civil oath, " to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the constitution ;" the romantic celebration of the f(te of the federation on the Champ-de-Mars... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1849 - 462 pages
...it, should be of opinion that there were grounds for the accusation. Each member took a solemn oath to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the King, and never to propose anything or consent to anything which could invade the Constitution established in... | |
 | George Long - 1850 - 704 pages
...France, now united. leers of the regiments of Normandy and Beauce, in garrison at Brest, and the oath "to be faithful to the nation, the law and the king, and to defend the new constitution," 18th May. To these authorities add the chapter of Michelet, ' Hist, de... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1855 - 620 pages
...bishops and newly-elected vicars should take an oath to watch over the people intrusted to their care, to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king; and to support with all their influence the constitution decreed by the assembly, and accepted by the sovereign."... | |
 | William Chambers - 1871 - 358 pages
...at which Talleyrand, bishop of Autun, officiated. The ceremony was concluded by all taking an oath ' to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king;' and with salvoes of artillery the ' national federation' was completed. This imposing display, with its... | |
 | Charles Bertram Black - 1872 - 300 pages
...The president of the National Assembly then went up to the altar and took the civic oath, swearing to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the constitution as decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king ; and every... | |
 | Charles Bertram Black - 1873 - 648 pages
...The president of the National Assembly then went up to the altar and took the civic oath, swearing to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the constitution as decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king ; and every... | |
 | William Henley Jervis - 1882 - 564 pages
...before the municipality and the people, to be " vigilant in the care of the flock committed to him, to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain to the utmost of his power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted... | |
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I swear to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king ; and to maintain with all my powers the constitution decreed by the national assembly, and accepted by the king. 
