History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution from Unpublished Sources, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1854 |
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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 - 1868 |
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Page 432 - They acknowledge that the worship worthy of the Supreme Being is the practice of the duties of man.
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 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 490 - A slave of liberty, a living martyr of the republic ; the victim as much as the enemy of crime. All men of infamy insult me...
Page 266 - Then, turning to the old man, she said, " Do you precede me to the scaffold ; to see my blood flow would be making you suffer the bitterness of death twice over. I must spare you the pain of witnessing my punishment.
Page 266 - Lamarche, which she heard with out changing color, Madame Roland stepped lightly up to the scaffold, and bowing before the statue of Liberty, as though to do homage to a power for whom she was about to die, exclaimed, "O Liberty ! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name...
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 xx - Finally, gentlemen, the Provisional Government was anxious to be itself the bearer to you of the last decree it has resolved on and signed in this memorable sitting; that is, the abolition of the penalty of death for political matters.
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.