Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, Том 2H.G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... means of the people themselves , and ensure to Louis XVI . the happiness he so much desired , of uniting the liberty of the nation with the prerogatives of the monarch . Though I admired the plan , " says Bertrand de Moleville , " I ...
... means of the people themselves , and ensure to Louis XVI . the happiness he so much desired , of uniting the liberty of the nation with the prerogatives of the monarch . Though I admired the plan , " says Bertrand de Moleville , " I ...
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... means to save the king . " Bertrand de Moleville then subjoins the following remarkable paragraph : - " Although he did not possess all the firmness re- quisite for such an attempt , perhaps he would have succeeded , had it not been for ...
... means to save the king . " Bertrand de Moleville then subjoins the following remarkable paragraph : - " Although he did not possess all the firmness re- quisite for such an attempt , perhaps he would have succeeded , had it not been for ...
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... means have you ? " " La Fayette with his national guards , " was the answer , with his army , or with both . ” 66 ОТ Now , any measure of this kind was very different from the one adopted by La Fayette , -a letter from his camp . Any ...
... means have you ? " " La Fayette with his national guards , " was the answer , with his army , or with both . ” 66 ОТ Now , any measure of this kind was very different from the one adopted by La Fayette , -a letter from his camp . Any ...
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... . The mob was their means ; and if in the course of any resistance that might arise , if amid the fortunes of an insurrection the king was killed , no great anxiety was felt on that subject ; the republic XXVII . 11 TWENTIETH OF JUNE .
... . The mob was their means ; and if in the course of any resistance that might arise , if amid the fortunes of an insurrection the king was killed , no great anxiety was felt on that subject ; the republic XXVII . 11 TWENTIETH OF JUNE .
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... means , rather than trust to their armies , or any regular efforts of the constituted authorities ; that is , they had no proper horror of anarchy and bloodshed . These were the unfortunate circumstances on the one side ; but on the ...
... means , rather than trust to their armies , or any regular efforts of the constituted authorities ; that is , they had no proper horror of anarchy and bloodshed . These were the unfortunate circumstances on the one side ; but on the ...
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Стр. 182 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Стр. 515 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Стр. 248 - Men of Age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Стр. 182 - All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Стр. 61 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while : I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends : subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Стр. 515 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Стр. 514 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline...
Стр. 460 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb...
Стр. 516 - It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley.
Стр. 184 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.