Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, Volume 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1799 - France |
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Page 142 - A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva. had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence.
Page 296 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?
Page 142 - I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Page 142 - Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young ladies, she earned a hard subsistence for herself and her mother; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation and a dignified behaviour.
Page 313 - ... that his work should be generally read. Remember, I am not asking your opinions of the doctrines themselves ; you have given them already pretty visibly since I began to address you ; but I shall appeal not only to you, but to those who, without our leave, will hereafter judge, and without appeal, of all that we are doing to-day, whether, upon the matter which I hasten to lay before you, you can refuse to pronounce, that from his education, from the accidents and habits of his life, from the...
Page 142 - The profeffion of her father did not extinguifh the moderation and philofophy of his temper, and he lived content with a fmall falary and laborious duty in the obfcure lot of Minifter of Craffy, in the mountains that feparate the Pays de Vaud from the country of Burgundy.
Page 142 - Curchod were embellished by the virtues and talents of the mind. Her fortune was humble, but her family was respectable. Her mother, a native of France, had preferred her religion to her country. The profession of her father did not extinguish the moderation and philosophy of his temper, and he lived content, with a small salary and laborious duty, in the obscure lot of minister of...
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Page 272 - Henry the fixth, though fo revolting and injudicious an act as to excite the indignation of mankind againft him. I can now believe that he contrived the death of his own brother...