Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6A.C. Armstrong, 1860 |
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Page 430
... Barère he does not even notice . In such cases , of course , judgment must go against him by default . The fact is , that nothing can be more meagre and uninteresting than his account of the great public transactions in which he was ...
... Barère he does not even notice . In such cases , of course , judgment must go against him by default . The fact is , that nothing can be more meagre and uninteresting than his account of the great public transactions in which he was ...
Page 431
... Barère's want of veracity ; but M. Hippolyte Carnot has arranged these Memoirs , has introduced them to the world by a lauda- tory preface , has described them as documents of great historical value , and has illustrated them by notes ...
... Barère's want of veracity ; but M. Hippolyte Carnot has arranged these Memoirs , has introduced them to the world by a lauda- tory preface , has described them as documents of great historical value , and has illustrated them by notes ...
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... Barère himself . It is clear , then , that Barère attributed his own mean insolence and bar- barity to one who , whatever his crimes may have been , was in this matter innocent . The only question re- maining is , whether Barère was ...
... Barère himself . It is clear , then , that Barère attributed his own mean insolence and bar- barity to one who , whatever his crimes may have been , was in this matter innocent . The only question re- maining is , whether Barère was ...
Page 434
... Barère's memory might well have deceived him . It would be as unreasonable to expect him to remember all the wretches whom he slew as all the pinches of snuff ' that he took . But , though Barère murdered many hun- dreds of human beings ...
... Barère's memory might well have deceived him . It would be as unreasonable to expect him to remember all the wretches whom he slew as all the pinches of snuff ' that he took . But , though Barère murdered many hun- dreds of human beings ...
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... Barère himself took the lead in the proceedings of the Convention against the Girondists . We affirm that he , on the twenty - eighth of July 1793 , proposed a decree for bringing nine Girondist deputies to trial , and for putting to ...
... Barère himself took the lead in the proceedings of the Convention against the Girondists . We affirm that he , on the twenty - eighth of July 1793 , proposed a decree for bringing nine Girondist deputies to trial , and for putting to ...
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Page 128 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has "betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all ! " When the deep murmnr of various emotions had subsided,...
Page 124 - ... had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Page 374 - Booth to his box, and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
Page 125 - ... made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual...
Page 128 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 124 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 123 - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 356 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 144 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 17 - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble, even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds.