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... Robespierre exclaimed that " the people oppressed for ages had a right to the revenge of a day . " In the provinces , the peasants , seized with an epidemic phrenzy , rose against the wealthy and privileged proprietors ; attacked and ...
... Robespierre exclaimed that " the people oppressed for ages had a right to the revenge of a day . " In the provinces , the peasants , seized with an epidemic phrenzy , rose against the wealthy and privileged proprietors ; attacked and ...
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... Robespierre , says Scott , might be considered as the head of the Jacobins , " if they had , indeed , a leader , more than wolves have , which tune their united voices to the cry of him that bays the loudest . " - Marat loved to talk of ...
... Robespierre , says Scott , might be considered as the head of the Jacobins , " if they had , indeed , a leader , more than wolves have , which tune their united voices to the cry of him that bays the loudest . " - Marat loved to talk of ...
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... Robespierre had to impose on the minds of the vulgar , and he knew how to beguile them , by accommodating his ... Robespierre's ruling passion , and though his coun- tenance was the image of his mind , he was vain even of his per- sonal ...
... Robespierre had to impose on the minds of the vulgar , and he knew how to beguile them , by accommodating his ... Robespierre's ruling passion , and though his coun- tenance was the image of his mind , he was vain even of his per- sonal ...
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... Robespierre for his cowardice , Robespierre feared the ferocious audacity of Danton ; and with him to fear was to hate - and to hate was when the hour arrived - to destroy . They differed in their ideas also of the mode of exercising ...
... Robespierre for his cowardice , Robespierre feared the ferocious audacity of Danton ; and with him to fear was to hate - and to hate was when the hour arrived - to destroy . They differed in their ideas also of the mode of exercising ...
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support ; but nothing under the supreme rule in France would have gratified Robespierre ; and an unlimited torrent of the blood of that unhappy country could alone have satiated Marat . If a colleague was to be chosen out of that ...
support ; but nothing under the supreme rule in France would have gratified Robespierre ; and an unlimited torrent of the blood of that unhappy country could alone have satiated Marat . If a colleague was to be chosen out of that ...
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Page 62 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 61 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Page 61 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every...
Page 285 - Traveller, in the stranger's land, Far from thine own household band ; Mourner, haunted by the tone Of a voice from this world gone ; Captive, in whose narrow cell, Sunshine hath not leave to dwell ; , Sailor, on the darkening sea, Lift the heart and bend the knee.
Page 304 - society, land of the second degree of fertility is ' taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences ' on that of the first quality, and the amount of that ' rent will depend on the difference in the quality of
Page 398 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Page 63 - If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path. WASHINGTON is in the clear upper sky.
Page 15 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 105 - The question in this case is, whether the intelligence of extrinsic circumstances, which might influence the price of the commodity, and which was exclusively within the knowledge of the vendee, ought to have been communicated by him to the vendor. The court is of opinion that he was not bound to communicate it.
Page 184 - ... prevail long. But if, in the moment of riot, and in a drunken delirium from the hot spirit drawn out of the alembic of hell, which in France is now so furiously boiling, we should uncover our nakedness, by throwing off...