Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, Том 2

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T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1799

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Стр. 142 - A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva. had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence.
Стр. 296 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?
Стр. 142 - I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Стр. 142 - Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young ladies, she earned a hard subsistence for herself and her mother; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation and a dignified behaviour.
Стр. 313 - ... that his work should be generally read. Remember, I am not asking your opinions of the doctrines themselves ; you have given them already pretty visibly since I began to address you ; but I shall appeal not only to you, but to those who, without our leave, will hereafter judge, and without appeal, of all that we are doing to-day, whether, upon the matter which I hasten to lay before you, you can refuse to pronounce, that from his education, from the accidents and habits of his life, from the...
Стр. 142 - The profeffion of her father did not extinguifh the moderation and philofophy of his temper, and he lived content with a fmall falary and laborious duty in the obfcure lot of Minifter of Craffy, in the mountains that feparate the Pays de Vaud from the country of Burgundy.
Стр. 142 - Curchod were embellished by the virtues and talents of the mind. Her fortune was humble, but her family was respectable. Her mother, a native of France, had preferred her religion to her country. The profession of her father did not extinguish the moderation and philosophy of his temper, and he lived content, with a small salary and laborious duty, in the obscure lot of minister of...
Стр. 482 - I cared not about the prosecution, but to have defended the principles I had advanced in the work. The duty I am now engaged in is of too much importance to permit me to trouble myself about your prosecution : when I have leisure, I shall have no objection to meet you on that ground ; but as I now stand, whether you go on with the prosecution, or whether you do not, or whether you obtain a verdict, or not, is a matter of the most perfect indifference to me as an individual.
Стр. 272 - ... a monster, by a royal duke, who has actually surpassed all the guilt imputed to Richard the third, and who, devoid of Richard's courage, has acted his enormities openly, and will leave it impossible to any future writer, however disposed to candour, to entertain one historic doubt on the abominable actions of Philip duke of Orleans.
Стр. 272 - Henry the fixth, though fo revolting and injudicious an act as to excite the indignation of mankind againft him. I can now believe that he contrived the death of his own brother...

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