History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution from Unpublished Sources, Volume 1Bell, 1890 - France |
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... human race . Recital animated by the imagination , weighed and judged by wisdom , -such is history as the ancients understood it ; and of history conceived and produced in such a spirit , I would , under the Divine guidance , leave a ...
... human race . Recital animated by the imagination , weighed and judged by wisdom , -such is history as the ancients understood it ; and of history conceived and produced in such a spirit , I would , under the Divine guidance , leave a ...
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... human ; the chilling materialism of his age had crushed in his heart the expansion , force , and craving for ... humanity ! IV . Grand displays cast a veil of universal mourning over the secret sentiments which his death inspired to all ...
... human ; the chilling materialism of his age had crushed in his heart the expansion , force , and craving for ... humanity ! IV . Grand displays cast a veil of universal mourning over the secret sentiments which his death inspired to all ...
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... human heart , and which see in the good done for the people nothing but an insult to the nobility . His popular sentiments were in some sort but the liberality of his genius . The vast expansiveness of his mighty soul had no resemblance ...
... human heart , and which see in the good done for the people nothing but an insult to the nobility . His popular sentiments were in some sort but the liberality of his genius . The vast expansiveness of his mighty soul had no resemblance ...
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... human things , but this hand itself has a shadow which conceals what it accomplishes . All that could then be seen of the French Revolution announced all that was great in this world , the advent of a new idea in human kind , the demo ...
... human things , but this hand itself has a shadow which conceals what it accomplishes . All that could then be seen of the French Revolution announced all that was great in this world , the advent of a new idea in human kind , the demo ...
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... human creature has received from the hand of God ; and from both flowed the enfranchisement of God or nature . The political philosophy of the Revolution could not have invented a word more true , more complete , more divine than ...
... human creature has received from the hand of God ; and from both flowed the enfranchisement of God or nature . The political philosophy of the Revolution could not have invented a word more true , more complete , more divine than ...
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