The French Revolution: A History, Volumen11

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P.F. Collier, 1897
 

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Página 308 - A completeness, a decision is in this fair female Figure : 'by energy she means the spirit that will prompt one to sacrifice himself for his country.
Página 445 - Peace, peace, when there is no peace,' then the dark Chaos, it would seem, will rise ; — has risen, and, O Heavens, has it not tanned their skins into breeches for itself? That there be no second Sansculottism in our Earth for a thousand years, let us understand well what the first was ; and let Rich and Poor of us go and do otherwise.
Página 310 - What tempted you, then ? His crimes. " I killed one man", added she, raising her voice extremely (extrememenf), as they went on with their questions, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand; a villain to save innocents; a savage wild beast to give repose to my country. I was a Republican before the Revolution; I never wanted energy".
Página 308 - She is of stately Norman figure ; in her twenty-fifth year ; of beautiful still countenance : her name is Charlotte Corday, heretofore styled D'Armans, while Nobility still was. Barbaroux has given her a Note to Deputy Duperret, — him who once drew his sword in the effervescence. Apparently she will to Paris on some errand?- "She was a Republican before the Revolution, and never wanted energy.
Página 314 - Twentyfive million hearts have got to such temper, this is the Anarchy; the soul of it lies in this: whereof not peace can be the embodiment! The death of Marat, whetting old animosities tenfold, will be worse than any life. O ye hapless Two...
Página 452 - Church show splintered by it, to this hour. — Singular: in old Broglie's time, six years ago, this Whiff of Grapeshot was promised; but it could not be given then, could not have profited then. Now, however, the time is come for it, and the man; and behold, you have it; and the thing we specifically call French Revolution is blown into space by it, and become a thing that was!
Página 394 - Our heads will meet there," in the Headsman's sack. His last words were to Samson the Headsman himself: "Thou wilt show my head to the people; it is worth showing.
Página 174 - ... consummation, is there not a confused pause rather, — one last instant of possibility for him? Not yet a murderer; it is at the mercy of light trifles whether the most fixed idea may not yet become unfixed. One slight twitch of a muscle, the death-flash bursts; and he is it, and will for Eternity be it; and Earth has become a penal Tartarus for him; his horizon girdled now not with golden hope, but with red flames of remorse; voices from the depths of Nature sounding, Wo, wo on him! Of such...
Página 389 - Reality, again, struggling to think no ill of a chief-product of the Revolution; yet feeling at bottom that such chief-product was little other than a chief wind-bag, blown large by Popular air; not a man with the heart of a man, but a poor spasmodic incorruptible pedant, with a logic-formula instead of heart; of Jesuit or MethodistParson nature; full of sincere-cant, incorruptibility, of virulence, poltroonery; barren as the east-wind!
Página 17 - Queenlady, in gypsy-hat; safe after perils; who has had to inquire her way. She too is admitted; her Courier jumps aloft, as the other, who is also a disguised Bodyguard, has done: and now, O...

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