Retracted at first, they were afterwards again pronounced: uttered at first like blasphemies, they were not long in being familiar as principles.

Parties did not at first know what they themselves desired--they learnt it from success.

The daring broached distempered ideas; if repulsed, the sagacious disavowed them--if caught up, the leaders resumed them.

In conflicts of opinions _reconnaissances_ are employed, as they are in the campaigns of armies.

The Jacobins were the advanced guard of the Revolution, who measured the opposing obstacles of the monarchical feeling.
The club of Cordeliers sent to the Jacobins a copy of a proposed address to the National Assembly, in which the annihilation of royalty was openly demanded.
"We are _free and without a king,_" said the Cordeliers, "as the day after the taking of the Bastille; it is only for us to decide whether or no we shall name another.