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... demanded by the navy do not permit old officers to be superseded by new ones , or a peasant to be transformed in six months into a sailor , a petty officer , or an admiral . Bouchotte , the minister at war , had alone remained in favour ...
... demanded by the navy do not permit old officers to be superseded by new ones , or a peasant to be transformed in six months into a sailor , a petty officer , or an admiral . Bouchotte , the minister at war , had alone remained in favour ...
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... demanded that forestallers should be sent to the guillotine . All this resulted from the assignats , as the assignats had resulted from the necessity of paying old debts , making compensation for offices , and defraying the expenses of ...
... demanded that forestallers should be sent to the guillotine . All this resulted from the assignats , as the assignats had resulted from the necessity of paying old debts , making compensation for offices , and defraying the expenses of ...
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... demanded severe measures against the dealers ; and we have seen the priest Jacques Roux exciting the Cordeliers , with a view to obtain the insertion of an article against forestallers in the Constitution . They also inveighed bitterly ...
... demanded severe measures against the dealers ; and we have seen the priest Jacques Roux exciting the Cordeliers , with a view to obtain the insertion of an article against forestallers in the Constitution . They also inveighed bitterly ...
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... demanded at once energy and vengeance . The envoys of the primary assemblies , says Hassenfratz , were slandered by a report that they meant to propose an amnesty ; they were incapable of such a thing , and were ready to unite with the ...
... demanded at once energy and vengeance . The envoys of the primary assemblies , says Hassenfratz , were slandered by a report that they meant to propose an amnesty ; they were incapable of such a thing , and were ready to unite with the ...
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... demanded that the Convention should take upon itself the duty of saving the country , that no amnesty should be granted , that suspected persons should be apprehended , that they should be sent off first to meet the enemy , and that the ...
... demanded that the Convention should take upon itself the duty of saving the country , that no amnesty should be granted , that suspected persons should be apprehended , that they should be sent off first to meet the enemy , and that the ...
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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.