(On moral and religious ideas in relation
to republican principles.)
[96] Personifications. From Greek to make persons. (SR).
[97] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 436. "The verres and Catilines of our
country." (Speech of Thermidor 8th.) - Note especially the speech
delivered March 7, 1794, crammed full of classical reminiscences.
[98] Ibid., XXXIII., 421. "Truth has touching and terrible accents
which reverberate powerfully in pure hearts as in guilty consciences,
and which falsehood can no more counterfeit than Salome can
counterfeit the thunders of heaven." - 437: "Why do those who
yesterday predicted such frightful tempests now gaze only on the
fleeciest clouds? Why do those who but lately exclaimed 'I affirm that
we are treading on a volcano' now behold themselves sleeping on a bed
of roses?"
[99] Ibid., XXXII., 360, 361. (Portraits of the encyclopaedists and
H?bertists.)
[100] Ibid., XXXIII., 408. "Here, I have to open my heart." - XXXII.,
475-478, the concluding part.
[101] Hamel: "Histoire de Robespierre," I., 34-76. An attorney at 23,
a member of the Rosati club at Arras at 24, a member of the Arras
Academy at 25. The Royal Society of Metz awarded him a second prize
for his discourse against the prejudice which regards the relatives of
condemned criminals as infamous.
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