History of The Girondists; or, Personal Memiors of the Patriots of the French Revolution. |
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Página 155 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.
Página 142 - I die in the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion; in that of my fathers; in that in which I have been bred, and which I have always professed, having no spiritual consolation to expect, not knowing if priests of this religion still exist here — and even the place in which I am would expose them too much, were they once to enter it. I sincerely ask pardon of God for all the errors I may have committed during my life. I hope that, in His kindness, He will accept my last vows, as well as those...
Página 321 - The theory of a revolutionary government," said he, " is as new as the Revolution which engendered it ; the aim of a constitutional government is to preserve the Republic, that of a revolutionary government is to found it. " Revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of victorious and peaceable liberty. " The revolutionary government owes to good citizens every national protection. It owes death to the enemies of the people. " It ought to steer between two...
Página 436 - I needed not this example to learn that it is but a step from the Capitol to the Tarpeian rock. Yet these strokes from below shall not stop me in my career." After this impressive exordium, he intimated that he should reply to Barnave only, and he thus proceeded : " Explain yourself," said he to him ; " you have in your opinion limited the King to the notification of hostilities, and you have...
Página 78 - is the toilette of death, arranged by somewhat rude hands, but it leads to immortality." She collected her long hair, looked at it for the last time, and gave it to Madame Richard. As she mounted the fatal cart, a violent storm broke over Paris, but the lightning and rain did not disperse the crowd who blocked up the squares, the bridges, and the streets along which she passed.
Página 236 - ... pollute the soil of liberty. May the perfidious English be attacked in all directions : may the whole republic form but one volcano to overwhelm them with its devouring lava! May the infamous isle, which produced these monsters, whom humanity disowns, be...
Página 480 - Who am I whom they accuse ? A slave of liberty, a living martyr of the republic ; the victim as much as the enemy of crime. All men of infamy insult me...
Página 256 - A colossal statue of Liberty, composed of clay, like the liberty of the time, then stood in the middle of the Place de la Concorde, on the spot now occupied by the Obelisk ; the scaffold was erected beside this statue. Upon arriving there, Madame Roland descended from the cart in which she had been conveyed.
Página 168 - No ; the soil is too weak to nourish the roots of civic liberty ; this people is too childish to wield its laws without hurting itself. It will return to its kings, as babes return to their toys. We were deceived as to the -age in which we were born, and in which we die for the freedom of the world,'* continued he.
Página 167 - ... silence, to recruit their exhausted strength, and then await the day. A priest, then a young man, but destined to survive them more than half a century, the Abbe Lambert, the friend of Brissot and the other Girondists, who had obtained admittance into the Conciergerie to console or bless the dying, awaited in the corridor the conclusion of the supper ; the doors were open, and he observed and noted down in his mind the gestures, the sighs, and the words of those assembled there ; and it is to...