Essays on French History: The Rise of the Reformation in France , The Club of the JacobinsG.P. Putnam's sons, 1897 - 120 páginas |
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Página 74 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
Página 84 - July 22, 1791. As long as the red flag continues to be displayed at the Hotel de Ville we may expect to feel the effects of that energy which military law has given to Government. A wonderful change has taken place since the disturbances of the 17th compelled the majority of the Assembly to be sensible of its power. It is calculated that two hundred people have been imprisoned since that event, upon suspicion of fomenting sedition by writing DANTON AND ROBESPIERRE.
Página 43 - Wherefore not only every man of sound understanding, but " they themselves, in spite of themselves, must admit that the Pope and all his brood of cardinals, bishops, monks, and canting mass-priests, with all who consent thereunto, are false prophets, damnable deceivers, apostates, wolves, false shepherds, idolaters, seducers, liars and execrable blasphemers, murderers of souls, renouncers of Jesus Christ, of his death and passion, false witnesses, traitors, thieves, and robbers of the honor of God,...
Página 9 - ... struggle between the word of God and the word of the church then took place in his heart. If he met with any passages of Scripture opposed to the Romish practices, he cast down his eyes, blushed, and dared not believe what he...
Página 27 - Sire," he retorted, to the monarch's petulant threat, " to speak with all frankness, you would be the first to repent your rash step. Your loss would be greater than the pope's ; for a new religion established in the midst of a people involves nothing short of a change of prince.
Página 19 - ... impression must not such discourses have produced on the minds of Lefevre's young disciples ! Could they hesitate when the university seemed impatient under the papal yoke ? If the main body itself was in motion, ought not they to rush forward as skirmishers and clear the way ?
Página 77 - ... was not to be found. Louis XVI. was upon the throne exactly what those weak temperament* whom nature has rendered incapable of an opinion are in society. In his pusillanimity, he gave his confidence to a minister ; and although amidst various counsels he often knew which was the best, he never had the resolution to say, " I prefer the opinion of such a one.
Página 67 - Convention for his violence against the king and the royal family, and his general unfeeling cruelty. During the Terror he was president of the Convention and member of the Committee of Public Safety, and it was mainly at his instance that the Duke of Orleans, the queen, and a host of other victims, were arraigned before the fatal Revolutionary Tribunal.
Página 43 - ... the sequel, had so direct and potent an influence upon the fortunes of the Reformation in France that it cannot be passed over without a brief reference to the general character of its contents. It began with a solemn address: "I invoke heaven and earth in testimony of the truth, against that proud and pompous papal mass, through which (if God remedy not speedily the evil) the world will be wholly desolated, destroyed, and ruined. For therein is our Lord so outrageously blasphemed and the people...