[History of the Girondists, Volume I by Alphonse de Lamartine]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Girondists, Volume I BOOK III 33/112
Then, again returning to your domestic hearths, you will obtain from all, if not blessings, at least the silence of calumny." This address, the most eloquent ever delivered by Barnave, carried the report in the affirmative; and for several days checked all attempts at republic and forfeiture in the clubs of the Cordeliers and Jacobins.
The king's inviolability was consecrated in fact as well as in principle.
M.de Bouille, his accomplices and adherents, were sent for trial to the high national court of Orleans. VII. Whilst these men, exclusively political, each measuring the advance of the Revolution, step by step, with their eyes, desired courageously to stop it, or checked their own views, the Revolution was continually progressing.
Its own thought was too vast for any head of public man, orator, or statesman to contain.
Its breath was too powerful for any one breast to respire it solely.
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