History of the Girondists, Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution: From Unpublished SourcesHarper & Brothers, 1849 |
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Страница 332 - God, which is before all, to remain always united among themselves, to obey their mother, grateful for all the care she has taken of them ; and in memory of myself, I pray them to look upon my sister as a second mother.
Страница 307 - ... this king a man — in this man life — life, of which society deprives no man for the crime of his situation, but for the crime of his acts and his intentions. " You are drawn away from the real merits of the question; there are no proceedings here !
Страница 308 - I demanded the abolition of capital punishment in the Constituent Assembly, and it is not my fault if the first principles of reason have appeared moral and judicial heresies. But you who...
Страница 308 - If that should be so, the constitution condemns you, and forbids you to overturn it. Go, then, to the feet of the tyrant, and implore his pardon and clemency. " But there is another difficulty — to what punishment shall we condemn him 1 The punishment of death is too cruel, says one.
Страница 176 - Dumouriez, and soon threatened to uproot all discipline, saying openly that the ancient officers were traitors, and that it was necessary to purge the army, as they had Paris, of its aristocrats. Dumouriez posted these battalions apart from the others, placed a strong force of cavalry behind them, and two pieces of cannon on their flank. Then, affecting to review them, he halted at the head of the line, surrounded by all his staff, and an escort of a hundred hussars.
Страница 176 - for I will not call you either citizens or soldiers, you see before you this artillery, behind you this cavalry ; you are stained with crimes, and I do not tolerate here assassins or executioners. I know that there are scoundrels among you charged to excite you to crime. Drive them from among you, or denounce them to me, for I shall hold you responsible for their conduct.
Страница 166 - Kellennann of the enemy's approach. .The Duke of Brunswick continued to advance, reached the ' high road to Chalons, crossed it, and then deployed his whole army. At ten o'clock, the mist having suddenly disappeared, .showed to the two generals their mutual situation. IX. Kellermann's army was en masse in the plain, and 'behind the mill of Valmy. This bold position projected like a cape into the midst of the lines of the Prussian bayonets.
Страница 307 - ... of crime and despotism! Citizens, beware! you are misled by false notions. The majestic movements of a great people, the sublime impulses of virtue present themselves as the eruption of a volcano, and as the overthrow of political society. When a nation is forced to recur to the right of insurrection, it returns to its original state. How can the tyrant appeal to the social compact ? He has destroyed it ! What laws replace it ? Those of nature...
Страница 267 - This winding staircase rose in a spiral form to the platform of the edifice. Seven successive wickets, or seven solid doors, shut by bolt and key, were ranged from landing to landing, from the base to the terrace. At each one of these wickets a sentinel and a key-bearer were on guard. An exterior gallery crowned the summit of the donjon. One made here ten steps at each turn. The least breath of air howled there like a tempest. The noises of Paris mounted there, weakening as they came. Thence the...
Страница 308 - The proceeding against the tyrant is insurrection — his sentence is his fall from power ; his punishment that exacted by the liberty of the people. The people dart their thunderbolts, that is, their sentence : they do not condemn kings, they suppress them — thrust them back again into nothingness. "Two months since, and who would ever have supposed there would be a question here of the inviolability of kings?