But since I was last in the town the streets have changed their names.

I know the way, but I don't know the names." "Look here!" demanded Sir John; "aren't you a Republican ?" "I not a Republican?
Come, come! Quite to the contrary.

I consider myself an excellent Republican.

I am quite capable of burning off my hand, like Mucius Scaevola, or jumping into the gulf like Curtius to save the Republic; but I have, unluckily, a keen sense of the ridiculous.
In spite of myself, the absurdity of things catches me in the side and tickles me till I nearly die of laughing.

I am willing to accept the Constitution of 1791; but when poor Herault de Sechelles wrote to the superintendent of the National Library to send him a copy of the laws of Minos, so that he could model his constitution on that of the Isle of Crete, I thought it was going rather far, and that we might very well have been content with those of Lycurgus.