Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... Europe to catch fire , and the con- flagration of France to become universal ? Were these new opi- nions to reach every portion of the civilized world ? Were other countries to exhibit similar scenes to those which had been already ...
... Europe to catch fire , and the con- flagration of France to become universal ? Were these new opi- nions to reach every portion of the civilized world ? Were other countries to exhibit similar scenes to those which had been already ...
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... Europe , and between the French and the French ; then to reform the constitution , limit the po- pular power by means of the people themselves , and ensure to Louis XVI . the happiness he so much desired , of uniting the liberty of the ...
... Europe , and between the French and the French ; then to reform the constitution , limit the po- pular power by means of the people themselves , and ensure to Louis XVI . the happiness he so much desired , of uniting the liberty of the ...
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... : the audience were breathless . " It is in the name of the king that these French princes have endea- voured to raise Europe up in arms against us : it is to avenge - the dignity of the king , that the treaty 40 LECT . FRENCH REVOLUTION .
... : the audience were breathless . " It is in the name of the king that these French princes have endea- voured to raise Europe up in arms against us : it is to avenge - the dignity of the king , that the treaty 40 LECT . FRENCH REVOLUTION .
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... Europe . This was a situation fitted to excite and exasperate a people like this ( a military nation , too , ) into a state of perfect frenzy ; and even the events that followed , appalling as they were , can convey to us no adequate ...
... Europe . This was a situation fitted to excite and exasperate a people like this ( a military nation , too , ) into a state of perfect frenzy ; and even the events that followed , appalling as they were , can convey to us no adequate ...
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... Europe , by a manifesto like this , which went in truth to say , that two military powers were to march into a neighbouring and independent kingdom , to settle the civil dissensions there as they thought best , and to punish by military ...
... Europe , by a manifesto like this , which went in truth to say , that two military powers were to march into a neighbouring and independent kingdom , to settle the civil dissensions there as they thought best , and to punish by military ...
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Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 460 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb...
Page 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.
Page 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.