 | Alphonse De Lamartine - 1847 - 510 pages
...impulse ends." This man was Robespierre. There are abysses that we dare not sound, and characters WP desire not to fathom, for fear of finding in them...social world, and the religious world, as a dream which unavailing]y beset his youth, when the Revolution came to offer him what destiny always offers to those... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 886 pages
...has the unflinching eye of time, must not be chilled by these terrors — she must understand while she undertakes to recount. Maximilien Robespierre...obscurity he brooded over the confused thoughts of the renovation of the social world and the religious world, as a dream which unavailing beset his youth,... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 886 pages
...must not be chilled by these terrors—she must understand while she undertakes to recount. Maximilicn Robespierre was born at Arras, of a poor family, honest...obscurity he brooded over the confused thoughts of the renovation of the social world and the religious world, as a dream which unavailingly beset his... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1849 - 542 pages
...fear of finding in them too great darkness, too much horror ; but history, which has the unflinching eye of time, must not be chilled by these terrors,...social world, and the religious world, as a dream wliich unavailingly beset his youth, when the Revolution came to offer him what destiny always offers... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1868 - 502 pages
...; but history, which has the unfliching eye of time, must not be chilled by these terrors, she$must understand whilst she undertakes to recount Maximilien...of politics : and in obscurity he brooded over the csnfused thoughts of a renovation of the social world, and the religious world, as a dream which unavailingly... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 pages
...The philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau had madoa profound impression upon his understanding; that philosophy, falling upon an active imagination, had...in him a leading principle, a faith, a fanaticism. Robespierre was the Luther of politics; and in obscurity he brooded over the confused thoughts of a... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1877 - 558 pages
...Jacques Roussean had made a profound impression upon his understanding; that philosophy, falling npon an active imagination, had not remained a dead letter;...in him a leading principle, a faith, a fanaticism. Robespierre was the Luther of politics; and in obscurity he brooded over the confused thoughts of a... | |
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... she undertakes to recount. Maximilien Robespierre was born at Arras, of a poor family, honest and respectable ; his father, who died in Germany, was of English origin. This may explain the shade of Puritanism in his character. The bishop of Arras... 