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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

- According to this rule
the limits of the public and private domain can be defined, which
limits, as they change backward and forward, may be verified according
to the changes which take place in interests and preferences, direct
or indirect.
[18] Carlyle: "Cromwell's Speeches and Letters," III., 418.
(Cromwell's address to the Parliament, September 17, 1656.)
[19] Seeley, "Life and Times of Stein," II., 143. - Macaulay,
"Biographical essays," Frederick the Great. 33, 35, 87, 92.
[20] Eugene Schuyler, "Peter the Great," vol. 2.
[21] Cf. "The Revolution" vol. II., pp. 46 and 323, vol. III., ch
I. Archives des Affaires Etrang?r?s. Vol. 332. (Letter by
Thiberge, Marseilles, Brumaire 14, year II.) "I have been to
Marteygne, a small town ten leagues from Marseilles, along with my
colleague Fournet; I found (je trouv?e) seventeen patriots in a town
of give thousand population." - Ibid., (Letter by Regulus Leclerc,
Bergues, Brumaire 15, year II.) At Bergues, he says, "the municipality
is composed of traders with empty stores and brewers without beer
since the law of the maximum." Consequently there is universal
lukewarmness, "only forty persons being found to form a popular club,
holding sessions as a favor every five days.


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