Life of DantonLongmans, Green, 1899 - 355 pages |
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Page ii - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Page 19 - ... throats are cut. When such evils happen, they surely are more imputable to the tyranny of the master than to the cruelty of the servant. The analogy holds with the French peasants — the murder of a seigneur, or a...
Page ii - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page 8 - Hé quoi ! j'apprends que l'on critique Le de qui précède mon nom. Etes-vous de noblesse antique ? Moi, noble? oh ! vraiment, messieurs, non. Non , d'aucune chevalerie Je n'ai le brevet sur vélin. Je ne sais qu'aimer ma patrie... (bis.) Je suis vilain et très vilain... (bis.) Je suis vilain , Vilain , vilain.
Page 64 - L'individu royal ne peut plus être roi dès qu'il est imbécile, et ce n'est pas un régent qu'il faut, c'est un conseil à l'interdiction ; ce conseil ne peut être pris dans le corps législatif. Il faut que les départements s'assemblent, que chacun d'eux nomme un électeur qui nomme ensuite les dix ou douze membres qui devront composer ce conseil, et qui seront changés comme les membres de la législature, tous les deux ans.
Page 122 - ... always full of occupation, even while her active mind craved for more definite and extended labour ; and when she came upon the field of strategy, it was always either with some business before her, or else so late that the champions were only assisting their several lags to bring the battle to an end. If there had been a will there would have been a way, but, as she said, she saw enough to perceive that proficiency could only be attained at the cost of much time and study, and she did not choose...
Page i - Legendre cowers low; Danton, like the others, must take his doom. Danton's Prison-thoughts were curious to have; but are not given in any quantity: indeed few such remarkable men have been left so obscure to us as this Titan of the Revolution. He was heard to ejaculate: "This time twelvemonth, I was moving the creation of that same Revolutionary Tribunal. I crave pardon for it of God and man. They are all Brothers Cain: Brissot would have had me guillotined as Robespierre now will.
Page 18 - Or to their oppressors who had kept them so long in a state of bondage? He who chooses to be served by slaves, and by ill-treated slaves, must know that he holds both his property and life by a tenure far different from those who prefer the service of...
Page 219 - A true revolutionary movement in Ireland," he said at this time, " should, in my opinion, partake both of a constitutional and an illegal character. It should be both an open and a secret organisation, using the constitution for its own purposes, but also taking advantage of its secret combination.
Page 30 - WE SWEAR to be for ever faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the King ; to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the King ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen by indissoluble ties of fraternity.