History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, from Unpublished Sources, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1868 |
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History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of ..., Volume 3 Alphonse de Lamartine Affichage du livre entier - 1848 |
History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of ..., Volume 3 Alphonse de Lamartine Affichage du livre entier - 1890 |
History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of ..., Volume 3 Alphonse de Lamartine Affichage du livre entier - 1854 |
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Page 79 - Qu'à l'univers surpris cette grande action Soit un objet d'horreur ou d'admiration; Mon esprit, peu jaloux de vivre en la mémoire, Ne considère point le reproche ou la gloire : Toujours indépendant, et toujours citoyen, Mon devoir me suffit, tout le reste n'est rien.
Page 331 - The theory of a revolutionary government," said he, " is as new as the Revolution which engendered it ; the aim of a constitutional government is to preserve the Republic, that of a revolutionary government is to found it." " Revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of victorious and peaceable liberty. " The revolutionary government owes to good citizens every national protection. It owes death to the enemies of the people." " It ought to steer between two...
Page 430 - But what have his cowardly adversaries done for it ? They have fought against the Revolution from the moment they feared that it would raise the people above them. " The traitor Guadet denounced a citizen for having pronounced the name of Providence ? We...
Page 432 - His religion, virtue ; His fetes the joy of a great people assembled under His eyes, to draw^ closer the sweet bonds of universal fraternity, and to present to Him the homage of pure and sensitive hearts.
Page xx - We have brought it with us, and I will now read it to you. There is not a more becoming homage to a people than the spectacle of its own magnanimity.
Page 534 - ... surprised and immolated by the very manoeuvre which he had planned to bring back the Terror to the law, the Revolution to order, and the republic to unity. Overthrown by men some better and some worse than himself, he had the unutterable misfortune of dying the same day on which the Terror ended, and thus of accumulating on his name the blood of punishments he would fain have spared, and the curses of victims he would willingly have saved. His death was the date and not the cause of the cessation...
Page xvi - July ; but, happily, it has not been shed in vain. It has secured a national and popular Government, in accordance with the rights, the progress, and the will of this great and generous people.
Page 57 - Charlotte's age inclined her to the perusal of romances, which supplied visions ready drawn for unemployed minds. Her feelings led her to pursue works of philosophy, which transform the vague instincts of humanity into sublime theories of government ; and historical productions, which convert theories into actions, and ideas into men.
Page 151 - Alas! my poor child — I dare not write to her; she would not receive my letter ; I know not even if this may reach you.
Page 429 - The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual appeal to justice: this idea is then social and republican.