The History of the French Revolution, Volume 2

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Page 167 - Buonaparte, but lie suppressed the u during the first campaign in Italy. His motives for so doing were merely to render the spelling conformable with the pronunciation, and to abridge his signature. He signed Buonaparte even after the famous 13th Vendemiaire.
Page 155 - Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a great Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people.
Page 65 - The young men shall go to battle; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and...
Page 131 - I hope to emulate his firmness at the last hour. I weep only for my children : I hope that one day, when they have regained their rank, they may be reunited to you, and feel the blessing of your tender care.
Page 119 - M. de L. stretched, almost insensible, on a wretched litter, — his wife, three months gone with child, walking by his side, — and, behind her, her faithful nurse, with her helpless and astonished infant in her arms. When they arrived on the beach, they with difficulty got a crazy boat to carry them to the island ; but the aged monk who steered it, would not venture to cross the larger branch of the stream, — and the poor wounded man was obliged to submit to the agony of another removal. At...
Page 230 - The idea of a Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual call to justice ; it is therefore a social and republican principle.
Page 230 - ... mourn a virtuous friend, who love to think that the better part of him has escaped death — ye who weep over the coffin of a son, or of a wife — are ye consoled by him who tells you that nothing but vile dust is left of either? Unfortunate mortal, who expirest by the steel of the assassin, thy last sigh is an appeal to eternal justice ! Innocence on the scaffold makes the tyrant turn pale in his car of triumph. Would it possess this ascendency, if the grave equalled the oppressor and the oppressed...
Page 149 - O, you," said one 668 669 in apostrophe, " O, you instruments of fanaticism, blessed saints of all kinds, be at length patriots! Rise en masse; serve the country by going to the Mint to be melted, and give us in this world that felicity which you wanted to obtain for us in the other!
Page 172 - ... entertained by many officers, who conceived success impossible, chiefly on account of the dreadful weather; the rain was falling in torrents. Dugommier and the Commandant of artillery ridiculed these fears : two columns were formed, and marched against the enemy. The Allied troops, to avoid the effect of the shells and balls, which showered upon the fort, were accustomed to occupy a station at a small distance in the rear of it. The French had great hopes of reaching the works before them; but...
Page 84 - In 17U9 he was chosen a member of the council of five hundred, and, therefore, resigned his command. He then obtained from the consul, Bonaparte, the command of the army in Holland.

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