Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, Bind 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1799 |
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Side 298 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?
Side 141 - A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence.
Side 140 - Curchod were embellished by the virtues and talents of the mind. Her fortune was humble, but her family was respectable. Her mother, a native of France, had preferred her religion to her country. The profession of her father did not extinguish the moderation and philosophy of his temper, and he lived content, with a small salary and laborious duty, in the obscure lot of minister of...
Side 427 - At this spot, by David's command, the mothers are to embrace their daughters ; at that, the fathers are to clasp their sons ; here, the old are to bless the young...
Side 140 - I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Side 274 - ... a monster, by a royal duke, who has actually surpassed all the guilt imputed to Richard the third, and who, devoid of Richard's courage, has acted his enormities openly, and will leave it impossible to any future writer, however disposed to candour, to entertain one historic doubt on the abominable actions of Philip duke of Orleans.
Side 274 - Henry the fixth, though fo revolting and injudicious an act as to excite the indignation of mankind againft him. I can now believe that he contrived the death of his own brother...
Side 39 - A horrid plot, hatched by the court, to murder all the patriots of the French empire, a plot in which a great number of members of the National Assembly are implicated, having, on the 9th of last month, reduced the commune of Paris to the cruel necessity of employing the power of the people to save the nation, it has not neglected any thing to deserve well of the country. After the...
Side 140 - Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young ladies, she earned a hard subsistence for herself and her mother; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation and a dignified behaviour.
Side 259 - They prefTed round him, treading defignedly upon his toes, and pufhing him towards the door. When he went into the queen's apartment, where the cloth was already laid, as foon as he appeared, they cried out on every fide, ** let...