The French Revolution: The guillotineG. Bell and sons, Limited, 1913 |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
amid answer Argonne Aristocrats arms arrest assignats Austrians Barbaroux Barrère become behold brave bread Brunswick Buzot called Calvados Camille Camille Desmoulins cannon chap Chaumette Citoyen Cobourg Collot Committee Constitution Danton death decreed Deputy Deux Amis Dumouriez effervescence Egalité eloquence eyes fire Formula France French friends Gironde Girondins Guillotine hand head heart Heaven Henriot Hérault Hist honour Jacobins King Legislative Lepelletier Liberty Longwi look Louis Louvet Lyons Marat March Massacres Mémoires Mercier Minister Moniteur Montgaillard morning morrow Mountain Municipality National Convention night once Paris Paris Commune Parl Patriotism People's-Friend Pétion Pitt poor Prisons Prussians rage Republic Rév Revolution Revolutionary Revolutionary Tribunal rise Robespierre Roland round Royal Royalist Salut Sansculottism Santerre Séance Section September September Massacres shriek silent speak streets suspect Tallien Tenth of August terror things Thionville thou tion Toulon Townhall traitors Tribunal Tuileries Vergniaud voice vote
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 199 - It is most true," says Forster, "that he struck the cheek insultingly; for I saw it with my eyes : the Police imprisoned him for it." In this manner have the Beautifullest and the Squalidest come in collision, and extinguished one another. Jean-Paul Marat and Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday both, suddenly, are no more. " Day of the Preparation of Peace?" Alas, how were peace possible or preparable, while, for example, the hearts of lovely Maidens, in their convent-stillness, are dreaming not of Loveparadises,...
Σελίδα 196 - Marat,' four years ago, in the crowd of the Pont Neuf, shrewdly required of that Besenval Hussar-party, which had such friendly dispositions, " to dismount, and give up their arms, then ;' and became notable among Patriot men.
Σελίδα 129 - There is dipping of handkerchiefs, of pike-points in the blood. Headsman Samson, though he afterwards denied it, sells locks of the hair : fractions of the puce coat are long after worn in rings.
Σελίδα 195 - Inn, despatches a short Note to Marat; signifying that she is from Caen, the seat of rebellion; that she desires earnestly to see him, and 'will put it in his power to do France a great service.
Σελίδα 198 - What tempted you, then ? His crimes. " I killed one man," added she, raising her voice extremely (extrcmemeni), as they went on with their questions, " I killed one man to save a hundred thousand ; a villain to save innocents ; a savage wild-beast to give repose to my country. I was a Republican before the Revolution ; I never wanted energy.
Σελίδα 128 - Edgeworth has to remind him how the Saviour, in whom men trust, submitted to be bound. His hands are tied, his head bare, the fatal moment is come. He advances to the edge of the scaffold, his face very red...
Σελίδα 196 - ... slipper-bath; strong three-footed stool for writing on, the while; and a squalid — Washerwoman, one may call her: that is his civic establishment in MedicalSchool Street; thither and not elsewhither has his road led him. Not to the reign of Brotherhood and Perfect Felicity; yet surely on the way towards that?
Σελίδα 199 - Others growl and howl. Adam Lux, of Mentz, declares that she is greater than Brutus ; that it were beautiful to die with her : the head of this young man seems turned. At the Place de la Revolution, the countenance of Charlotte wears the same still smile. The executioners proceed to bind her feet ; she resists, thinking it meant as an insult; on a word of explanation, she submits with cheerful apology. As the last act, all being now ready, they take the 404 EPISODES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Σελίδα 53 - Fell slaughter, one of the most authentic products of the Pit you would say, once give it Customs, becomes War, with Laws of War ; and is Customary and Moral enough ; and red individuals carry the tools of it girt round their haunches, not without an air of pride, — which do thou nowise blame. While, see ! so long as it is but dressed in hodden or russet ; and Revolution, less frequent than War, has not yet got its Laws of Revolution, but the hodden or russet individuals are Uncustomary — O shrieking...
Σελίδα 128 - Executioners, do your duty!" The Executioners, desperate lest themselves be murdered (for Santerre and his Armed Ranks will strike, if they do not), seize the hapless Louis: six of them desperate, him singly desperate, struggling there; and bind him to their plank. Abbe Edgeworth, stooping, bespeaks him: "Son of Saint Louis, ascend to Heaven.