Flower of the Jacobins, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Characters at Present at the Head of Affairs in France (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793. Excerpt: ... the Jacobin newspapers. Though not a member of the French Academy, he has greatly enriched his mother tongue. The following words are at present quite in vogue: Brijfotter, to pick a pocket; un Brissotteur, a pick-pocket; Brissot met ses gands; i. e. when any one put his hands in the pockets of his neighbour. Long versed in the arts of dissimulation and hypocrisy, experienced in intrigue and treachery, his qualities of this kind are not much inferior to those of his arch friend Petion; and if justice obliges us to give the palm to the latter, it is not without paying a due tribute to the merits of the former. ROBESPIERRE. Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains 'Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains. WH E N.ministers have been impeached and branded as plunderers because they have acquired a fortune after toiling years in the pubblic service; when the pensioners of the royal bounty have been justly, perhaps, represented as the locusts of the state; when the sovereign has been reduced to an eleemosinary existence when private property has been invaded, on pretence to supply the exigencies of the nation, it cannot be impertinent or officious to investigate the private property of these public spirited and disinterested patriots. When we behold a man, who, but four years ago, when deputed to the National Assembly to serve his country with his talents and his virtues, was provided with a coat upon the occasion by an old benefactor; when we behold this man inhabiting a splendid hotel in the capital; when we see him rolling in glittering equipages, and revelling in banquets and entertainments, is it not fair to enquire into the sources of these riches, and to ask E 2. if if they are compatible with the rigid virtues of the republican? Come all ye wh..