Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... given the world any explanation of his views and mo- tives ; what he conceived to be the circumstances under which he acted , or what the reasons of his disappointments ; nor do I understand that he has any work of the kind in ...
... given the world any explanation of his views and mo- tives ; what he conceived to be the circumstances under which he acted , or what the reasons of his disappointments ; nor do I understand that he has any work of the kind in ...
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... given at this moment to the Revolution , and men at the time were overpowered with anxiety , while unable to conjecture what the event might be . It is now that we again have to deplore the want of memoirs from La Fayette . To have put ...
... given at this moment to the Revolution , and men at the time were overpowered with anxiety , while unable to conjecture what the event might be . It is now that we again have to deplore the want of memoirs from La Fayette . To have put ...
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... given him no mission of the kind ; and that he violates the constitution if he has quitted his post without leave from the ministers . I demand , therefore , in the first place , that the minister of war should be interrogated to know ...
... given him no mission of the kind ; and that he violates the constitution if he has quitted his post without leave from the ministers . I demand , therefore , in the first place , that the minister of war should be interrogated to know ...
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... given to Mallet du Pan , and was no longer at liberty , even if he had been disposed , on account of any such object as the constitution , to have united himself to La Fayette ; not even though La Fayette was endeavouring to accomplish ...
... given to Mallet du Pan , and was no longer at liberty , even if he had been disposed , on account of any such object as the constitution , to have united himself to La Fayette ; not even though La Fayette was endeavouring to accomplish ...
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... given by the historian Toulongeon is as follows : " Retired to his hotel , La Fayette set himself to consider what was the force of which he could avail himself . A review of the first division of the national guard , commanded by ...
... given by the historian Toulongeon is as follows : " Retired to his hotel , La Fayette set himself to consider what was the force of which he could avail himself . A review of the first division of the national guard , commanded by ...
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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.