Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, who Have Distinguished Themselves During the Progress of the Revolution, Band 1R. Phillips., 1799 |
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... , that about one half of the perfons mentioned in this Vo- lume , have fallen victims to political prenzy under the guillotine . The fudden and afto- nishing nifhing viciffitudes of fortune , exhibited in the condition of PREFACE . vii.
... , that about one half of the perfons mentioned in this Vo- lume , have fallen victims to political prenzy under the guillotine . The fudden and afto- nishing nifhing viciffitudes of fortune , exhibited in the condition of PREFACE . vii.
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nifhing viciffitudes of fortune , exhibited in the condition of individuals , afford a moft in- ftructive leffon to their cotemporaries . The dreadful wafte of human talents and virtues , and alfo of human existence , which has ac ...
nifhing viciffitudes of fortune , exhibited in the condition of individuals , afford a moft in- ftructive leffon to their cotemporaries . The dreadful wafte of human talents and virtues , and alfo of human existence , which has ac ...
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... fortune in the one way , and his bad fuccess in the other , had an equal tendency to empty his purfe ; and are faid to have elevated him to the fourth ftory of an obscure hotel . At length the Revolution approached , and gave his ...
... fortune in the one way , and his bad fuccess in the other , had an equal tendency to empty his purfe ; and are faid to have elevated him to the fourth ftory of an obscure hotel . At length the Revolution approached , and gave his ...
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... fortune ; but a great part of both is no doubt due to that strength of nerve , that found- nefs of judgement , and that speed of decifion , which render a man , in a manner , the mafter of events . This vigour of mind is accompanied ...
... fortune ; but a great part of both is no doubt due to that strength of nerve , that found- nefs of judgement , and that speed of decifion , which render a man , in a manner , the mafter of events . This vigour of mind is accompanied ...
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... which he was born ; his parents could not boast of nobility , and their fortune was fmall ; but they were in poffeffion of a spotless re- putation . I etourneur Letourneur was born at Granville on the 15th of March 34 LETOURNEUR .
... which he was born ; his parents could not boast of nobility , and their fortune was fmall ; but they were in poffeffion of a spotless re- putation . I etourneur Letourneur was born at Granville on the 15th of March 34 LETOURNEUR .
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Seite 214 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Seite 209 - Sofpeljo, that he firft developed his military talents, and it was entirely owing to him, that Saorgio, in the campaign of 1794. yielded to the republican arms. For this fervice, he was re.warded with the rank of general of divifion.
Seite 300 - Villt, drowned in tears, with a knife in his hand, an inft'rument which he had not courage to make ufe of. The horror of his execution was increafed by the difficulty of attaching him to the moving plank of the guillotine. The executioner was compelled, at...
Seite 214 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, thro
Seite 187 - ... and from the lives of Plutarch, a volume of which he always carried in his pocket, he learned, at an early age, to copy the manners, and emulate the actions, of antiquity. With this difpofition, it is but little wonder that he mould have dedicated his life to the profeffion of arms.
Seite 220 - Be comforted, and bury my memory in eternal oblivion. " I am to be tried to-morrow, the i;th, It fevtn o'clock in the morning. " I have lived long enough, as I have achieved a glorious exploit. " I put you under the protection of Barbaroux and his colleagues, in cafe you Ihould be moleftcd.
Seite 253 - Malefherbes, ftill the fame, even in his laft maments, exhibited to his relations an example of fortitude. He converfed with the perfons that were near him, without beftowing the leaft attention on the brutalities of the wretches who tied his hands. As he was leaving the prifon to afcend the fatal cart he ftumbled againft a ftone, and made a falfe ftep — " See," faid he, fmiling, " how bad an omen ! A Roman in my fituation would have been fent back again.
Seite 186 - Napoleone, at the military academy. The advantages refulting from this feminary, which has produced more great men than any other in Europe, were not loft on young Buonaparte. He there applied himfelf with equal afliduity and addrefs to mathematics, and ftudied the art of war as a regular fcience. Born in the midft of a republican ftruggle in his native land, it was his good fortune to. burn...
Seite 185 - Raniolini. His father, who was alfo a native of Ajaccio, was bred to the civil law, at Rome, and took part with the celebrated Paoli, in the...
Seite 256 - А к was appointed a member of the committee of General Security. He immediately became the organ of that committee to the National Convention, the reports of which were, for the moft part, drawn up by him ; and all orders of arreftation were commonly lignée!