Williams's Letters: Letters from France: containing a great variety of interesting and original information concerning the most important events that have lately occurred in that country, and particularly respecting the campaign of 1792 ... The 2d edG. G. and J. Robinson, 1796 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 89 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Pàgina 26 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne.. Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free...
Pàgina 119 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heaven.
Pàgina 16 - J'étais réellement confondu de les entendre ! Je leur parlai le langage austère de la loi ; je leur parlai avec le sentiment de l'indignation profonde dont j'étais pénétré. Je les fis sortir tous devant moi ; j'étais à peine sorti moi-même qu'ils y rentrèrent. Je fus de...
Pàgina 14 - Mais, at-on dit, si le peuple « n'a pas participé à ces meurtres, pourquoi ne les « at-il pas empêchés ? — Pourquoi ? Parce que « l'autorité tutélaire de Pétion était enchaînée, « parce que Roland parlait en vain, parce que « le ministre de la justice, Danton, ne parlait « pas... parce que les présidents des quarante...
Pàgina 119 - L'Assemblée nationale sensible à voire perte, qui est à la fois une perle publique, me charge de vous écrire et de vous envoyer le décret qu'elle vient de rendre. Vous y verrez, Madame, que la nation française est digne d'avoir des Brutus pour la défendre.
Pàgina 7 - One, next to him in power, and next in crime," is Danton, who, though not inferior to his aflbciate in vice, and fuperior in ability, having lefs felf-command, is confequently. lefs dangerous.
Pàgina 21 - And judgeth what he fees; and, as he judgeth, wills. V. 2. Here be it thine to calm and guide The fwelling democratic tide ; To watch the ftate's uncertain frame, And baffle faction's partial aim : But chiefly, with determin'd zeal, To quell that fervile band, who kneel To freedom's banifh'd foes ; That monfter, which is daily found Expert and bold thy country's peace to wound ; Yet dreads to handle arms, nor manly counfel knows. V.
Pàgina 6 - ... an eternal federation! This was indeed the golden age of the revolution. - But it is past! - the enchanting spell is broken, and the fair scenes of beauty and of order, through which imagination wandered, are transformed into the desolation of the...
Pàgina 3 - August been succeeded by a conflict far more terrible; a conflict between freedom and anarchy, knowledge and ignorance, virtue and vice