History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1849 |
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Pagina 432 - They acknowledge that the worship worthy of the Supreme Being is the practice of the duties of man.
Pagina 266 - Lamarche, which she heard without 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...
Pagina 265 - ... 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 sorrow...
Pagina 431 - DECREE. of universal fraternity, and to present to him the homage of pure and sensitive hearts. " Let us leave the priests, and return to the Divinity. (Applause.) Let us establish morality upon an eternal and sacred basis ; let us inspire in man that religious respect for man — that profound sentiment of his duties, which is the sole guarantee of social happiness.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 25 - I love," returned Madame Roland, proudly. She was placed in a carriage, surrounded by gens cTarmes ; the populace crowded round, shouting "A la guillotine!" A commissary of the Commune asked Madame Roland if she wished to have the windows of the carriage closed. " No," returned she ; " oppressed innocence should not assume the attitude of crime and shame. I do not fear the looks of honest men, and I brave those of my enemies.
Pagina 155 - The queen, after having written and prayed, slept soundly for some hours. On her awakening, the daughter of Madame Bault dressed and adjusted her hair with more neatness and respect for exterior appearance than on other days. Marie Antoinette cast off the black robe she had worn since her husband's death, and dressed herself in a white gown, emblematic of innocence on earth, and joy for heaven. A white handkerchief covered her shoulders, a white cap her hair. A black ribbon which bound this cap around...
Pagina 264 - ... of the republic, was hurled from her pinnacle to lie prostrate by the side of her own victim. These retaliations may be ascribed to accident, but they bear a strong resemblance to an even-handed justice. VIII. The examination and trial of Madame Roland was but a repetition of those charges against the Gironde with which every harangue of the Jacobin party was filled. She was reproached with being the wife of Roland, and the friend of his accomplices. With a proud look of triumph Madame Roland...
Pagina 112 - The young men will go to battle, the married men will forge arms and transport provisions, the women will make tents and...