The Historians' History of the World (Volume 12); A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Excerpt: ... 3&)r THE' public: memory is; but' too1 familiar1but'tbe' real motives 'of nits/creation DEGREESthe interior spririgVby Which1 it waS DEGREES worked-4-the object DEGREES the interest which, any man or party could have had, or fancied it hadj ihSttch ah protracted and diurnal, system of indiscriminate mUrder,1 andj above allj'thei wanton, 'the> impudent, the insane1 absurdity of thousands Of itg'individual judgments, ' are mysteries which DEGREES 'the more closely they'are examined, seem to us only the morediffioult to"be1 explained oreven guessed at."I '-' a- >, i>h '> , We begin by observing that its very name and date have been generally misunderstood. We1 hear1 and read Of1 ish& revolutionary tribunal j buty in fact, there were four of them usually comprised under that generic name, and characterised by the same spirit of injustice and;cruelty, but established at different periods, by different factions, for different purposes, and with different' powers. The first was instituted on the 17th of August, 1792, which, after having condemned and executed twenty-eight persons (of whom but half a dozen were on political charges) i Was Siiddenly'and contemptuously dismissed on the 30th of November. The sebdtod Was1 that damned to everlasting fame as the revolutionary tribunal, which hais' extended1 its terrible name to the others. This tribunal was"cfedted1 oh'the 1'Oth of March, 1793, and after exebutihg 2,780 persons', 'WaS I abdlis.