A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, Volume 2T. N. Longman, 1797 - 489 pages |
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Page 365 - O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.
Page 81 - That Wealth, too pleasing to be lost for Freedom ! That Wealth, which granted to their weeping Prince, Had rang'd embattled Nations at our Gates : But thus reserv'd to lure the Wolves of Turkey, Adds Shame to Grief, and Infamy to Ruin. Lamenting Av'rice now too late discovers Her own neglected, in the publick Safety.
Page 200 - ... to those who look beyond the moment, that the tyrannical laws which authorized all the late enormities are still unrepealed. The Revolutionary Tribunal continues to sentence people to death on pretexts as frivolous as those which were employed in the time of Robespierre ; they have only the advantage of being tried more formally, and of forfeiting their lives upon proof, instead of without it, for actions that a strictly administered justice would not punish by a month's imprisonment.
Page 27 - Previous to the tenth day, on which a celebration of this kind was to take place, a Deputy arrived, accompanied by the female goddefs : * that is, (if the town itfelf did not produce one for the purpofe,) a Roman drefs of white fatin was hired from the theatre, with which...
Page 47 - ... and judicious tears, that brighten the eye without deranging the features, to attract his notice and conciliate his favour. Happy thofe who obtain a promife, . a look of complacence, or even of curiofity !— But the attention of this apoftle of republicanifm is not often beftowed, except on high rank, or beauty ; and a woman who is old, or ill...
Page 119 - They were conducted to the fcaffold in a fort of red frocks, intended, as was alledged, to mark them as aflaffins — but, in reality, to prevent the croud diftinguifhing or receiving any impreffion from the number of young and interefting females who were comprifed in this dreadful Daughter. — They met death with a courage which...
Page 100 - Page 100. — A farmer was guillotined, becaufe fome blades of corn appeared growing in one of his ponds; from which circumftance it was inferred that he had thrown in a large quantity, in order to promote a fcarcity ; though it was fubftantially proved on his trial, that at the preceding harveft the grain of an adjoining field had been got in during a high wind, and that in all probability fome fcattered ears which reached the water had produced what was deemed fufficient teftimony to convict him....
Page 174 - But there are two of them,'* faid the keeper. " Then bring them both." The aged Marechalle, who was at fupper, concluded her meal while the reft were preparing, then took ,up her book of devotion, and departed chearfully.
Page 27 - Roman drefs, of white fatin, •was hired from the theatre, with which fae was invefted, her head was covered with a red cap, ornamented with oak leaves, one arm. was reclined on a plough, the other grafped a fpear, and her feet were fupported by a globe, and environed by mutilated emblems of feodality. "Thus equipped, the divinity and'her appendages were borne on the fhoulders of Jacobins "en bonnet rouge...