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... virtues and misfortunes of his royal master . " Citizens , " said this intrepid man , " here is your king ; what do you want with him ? Re- spect this good king . ' " Vive le Roi ! " was the answer mecha- nically returned by these ...
... virtues and misfortunes of his royal master . " Citizens , " said this intrepid man , " here is your king ; what do you want with him ? Re- spect this good king . ' " Vive le Roi ! " was the answer mecha- nically returned by these ...
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... virtue , sacred rights of men ! to - day you are but empty names . And how had they become empty names ? Others had been , it seems , as ready with measures of insurrection and violence , as were before Barbaroux and the Girondists ...
... virtue , sacred rights of men ! to - day you are but empty names . And how had they become empty names ? Others had been , it seems , as ready with measures of insurrection and violence , as were before Barbaroux and the Girondists ...
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... virtues of the human character : but he was not endowed with the high and commanding qualities that his situation now , more than ever , required ; with the prompt , decisive , resentful ener- gies , that enable a man to maintain his ...
... virtues of the human character : but he was not endowed with the high and commanding qualities that his situation now , more than ever , required ; with the prompt , decisive , resentful ener- gies , that enable a man to maintain his ...
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... virtues , I must not now forget to bear my testimony to the severer and the manly virtues of the human character . Their value , their dignity , their indispensable necessity , is but too evident ; it was but too evident on this ...
... virtues , I must not now forget to bear my testimony to the severer and the manly virtues of the human character . Their value , their dignity , their indispensable necessity , is but too evident ; it was but too evident on this ...
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... rest . Admiration at human virtue , melancholy at the fate of it , these are the tributes he will offer ; and a sigh , perhaps , for the wild conflicts of man- kind , where not the base and the guilty are 84 LECT . FRENCH REVOLUTION .
... rest . Admiration at human virtue , melancholy at the fate of it , these are the tributes he will offer ; and a sigh , perhaps , for the wild conflicts of man- kind , where not the base and the guilty are 84 LECT . FRENCH REVOLUTION .
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Page 515 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
Page 515 - Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.
Page 515 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us — for us and our children. Beyond that, I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind!
Page 187 - Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Page 514 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Page 63 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 515 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Page 184 - But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions/ which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Page 172 - You might, if you pleased, have profited of our example, and have given to your recovered freedom a correspondent dignity. Your privileges, though discontinued, were not lost to memory. Your...
Page 236 - But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.