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" The sovereign, humbled to the level of a beggar's pity, without resources, without authority, without a friend. The Assembly at once a master and a slave, new in power, wild in theory, raw in practice. It engrosses all functions though incapable of exercising... "
American Quarterly Review - Page 466
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

1832 - 574 pages
...level of a beggar's pity, without resources, without authority, without a friend. The Assembly at once master and a slave ; new in power, wild in theory....people every restraint of religion and of respect. Such a state of things caunot last" In another letter he tells General Washington that " he cannot...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 10

1832 - 598 pages
...the birds of night, now build their nests in its nitches. The sovereign, humbled to the level of the beggar's pity, without resources, without authority,...ignorant caprice. Such a state of things cannot last. " But how will it end ? Here conjecture may wander through unbounded space. What sum of misery may...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 5; Volume 10

1832 - 604 pages
...raw in practice, It engrosses all functions, though incapable of exercising any, and has token froo this fierce ferocious people every restraint of religion...the whole, split up into fractional morsels, depend 01 momentary impulse and ignorant caprice. Such a state of things cannot last. " But how wilt it end...
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The Works of Washington Irving ...

Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 pages
...while we detest the false god to whom it was dedicated. Daws and ravens, and the birds of night, now build their nests in its niches. The sovereign, humbled...people, every restraint of religion and of respect. * * * Lafayette has hitherto acted a splendid part. The king obeys but detests him. He obeys because...
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Works, Volume 39

Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 pages
...while we detest the false god to whom it was dedicated. Daws and ravens, and the birds of night, now build their nests in its niches. The sovereign, humbled...people, every restraint of religion and of respect. . . . Lafayette has hitherto acted a splendid part. The king obeys but detests him. He obeys because...
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Life of George Washington, Volume 5

Washington Irving - 1865 - 466 pages
...power, wild in theory, raw in practice. It engrosses all functions, though incapable of exorcising any, and has taken from tHis fierce, ferocious people, every restraint of religion and of respect. * * * Lafayette has hitherto acted a splendid part. The king obeys but detests him. He obeys because...
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Irving's Works: Life of George Washington

Washington Irving - 1882 - 536 pages
...while we detest the false god to whom it was dedicated. Daws and ravens, and the birds of night, now build their nests in its niches. The sovereign, humbled...people, every restraint of religion and of respect. . .• . . Lafayette has hitherto acted a splendid part. The king obeys but detests him. He obeys because...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 53

1886 - 520 pages
...while we detest the false god to whom it was dedicated. Daws and ravens, and the birds of night, now build their nests in its niches. The sovereign, humbled...ignorant caprice. Such a state of things cannot last." It was in no spirit of unfriendly criticism, either towards the French people or their aspirations,...
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A history of England in the eighteenth century, Volume 5

William Edward H. Lecky - 1887 - 634 pages
...at once a master and a slave, new in power, wild in theory, raw in 1 Annual Regitter, 1 790, p. 121. practice. It engrosses all functions though incapable...ignorant caprice. Such a state of things cannot last. But how will it end ? . . . One thing only seems to be tolerably ascertained — that the glorious...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 5

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 656 pages
...Annual Keyiftcr, 1790, p. 121. practice. It engrosses all functions though incapable of exerI/ cising any, and has taken from this fierce, ferocious people...ignorant caprice. Such a state of things cannot last. But how will it end ? . . . One thing only seems to be tolerably ascertained — that the glorious...
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