Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... duty as a general . " That this was a negative answer there can be no doubt , but how far it was an obliging answer is another question . It was not very possible for the king , as I have already inti- mated , to commit himself to the ...
... duty as a general . " That this was a negative answer there can be no doubt , but how far it was an obliging answer is another question . It was not very possible for the king , as I have already inti- mated , to commit himself to the ...
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... duty to have acted from the first on a system of conciliation and indulgence to their sovereign ; while to act as they did , and never to leave it ho- nourable to him , according to his own natural opinions , to be a constitutional king ...
... duty to have acted from the first on a system of conciliation and indulgence to their sovereign ; while to act as they did , and never to leave it ho- nourable to him , according to his own natural opinions , to be a constitutional king ...
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... duty , that of repelling the enemy . All difference of party or opinion must be suspended , and there remain but two classes of men , citizens and traitors . " You may yet save your country , and your crown with it . Dare at length to ...
... duty , that of repelling the enemy . All difference of party or opinion must be suspended , and there remain but two classes of men , citizens and traitors . " You may yet save your country , and your crown with it . Dare at length to ...
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... duty , For you have but mistook me all the while : I live on bread like you , feel want , taste grief , Need friends . " - * " Subjected thus , How can you say to me , I am a king ? " " I could not long , " says the minister XXIX . 63 ...
... duty , For you have but mistook me all the while : I live on bread like you , feel want , taste grief , Need friends . " - * " Subjected thus , How can you say to me , I am a king ? " " I could not long , " says the minister XXIX . 63 ...
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... duty he had to per- form , than as a pleasure he had to enjoy . How do we not wish on this occasion that we could but have given perfection to the character of an amiable man like this , who had fallen on these evil times ; that we ...
... duty he had to per- form , than as a pleasure he had to enjoy . How do we not wish on this occasion that we could but have given perfection to the character of an amiable man like this , who had fallen on these evil times ; that we ...
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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.