History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1848 |
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Pagina 454 - I needed not this example to learn that it is but a step from the Capitol to the Tarpeian rock. Yet these strokes from below shall not stop me in my career." After this impressive exordium, he intimated that he should reply to Barnave only, and he thus proceeded : " Explain yourself," said he to him ; " you have in your opinion limited the King to the notification of hostilities, and you have...
Pagina 273 - ... some long-desired object : the end and aim of her desires was death. As she passed along the corridor, where all the prisoners had assembled to greet her return, she looked at them smilingly, and drawing her right hand across her throat, made a sign expressive of cutting off a head. This was her only farewell ; it was tragic as her destiny, joyous as her deliverance ; and well was it understood by those who saw it. Many who were incapable of weeping for their own fate shed tears of unfeigned...
Pagina 440 - They acknowledge that the worship worthy of the Supreme Being is the practice of the duties of man.
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Pagina 98 - There are deeds of which men are no judges, and which mount, without appeal, direct to the tribunal of God. There are human actions so strange a mixture of weakness and strength, pure intent and culpable means, error and truth, murder and martyrdom, that we know not whether to term them crime or virtue. The culpable devotion of Charlotte Corday is amongst those acts which admiration and horror would leave eternally in doubt, did not morality reprove them.
Pagina 273 - I am going to the guillotine," replied Madame Roland : " a few moments and I shall be there ; but those who send me thither will not be long ere they follow me. I go innocent, but they will come stained with blood, and you who applaud our execution will then applaud theirs with equal zeal.
Pagina xxiv - 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.
Pagina 159 - 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.
Pagina 437 - 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.