Quarterly Essays (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2017 M05 18 - 402 pages Excerpt from Quarterly Essays These allowances made, there however remains to the volumes before us much to instruct the student in his survey of the men and the times of which they treat. M. Duval confesses in his Preface the indignation with which he regards the numerous books that have been written under the fallacious title of Histories of the Revolution, being in truth nothing better than impudent apologies for that epoch of ruin, of blood, and of tears. It is easy to conceive the feelings of irritation and dis gust with which an honest man who had actually lived amidst the horrors of Paris in the Reign of Terror, who had seen the tumbrils passing his windows to the Barriere da Tr6ne, who had beheld the infuriated mob butchering a grey-haired man discovered to be a Christian pastor, and shouting round the gory head of a woman convicted of pity for her benefactor, - must regard the philosophizing excuses and argumentative dogmas which some would-be Friend of Liberty, and Lover of the People, issues from the security of his closet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
