There was, besides, between the Girondists and the Jacobins a contest for leadership, and a rivalry in going a-head of the Revolution, which made each of the two factions afraid that the other should be in advance.

Dead bodies did not make them pause, and tears shed for too long a time might have been taken for weakness.
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However, victims multiplied daily, and disasters followed disasters.

The whole empire seemed ready to fall and crush its founders.

San Domingo, the richest of the French colonies, was swimming in blood.

France was punished for its egotism.