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My God, my country, and my countrymen, all were one with myself!" Such emotions repeatedly explode in the course of the session, and resulted in the passage of laws which no one could have imagined.
"Sometimes,"[2108] writes the American ambassador, "a speaker gets up in the midst of a deliberation, makes a fine discourse on a different subject, and closes with a nice little resolution which is carried with a hurrah.

Thus, in considering the plan of a national bank proposed by M.Necker, one of them took it into his head to move that every member should give his silver buckles, which was agreed to at once, and the honorable mover laid his upon the table, after which the business went on again." Thus, over-excited, they do not know in the morning what they will do in the afternoon, and they are at the mercy of every surprise.

When they are seized with these fits of enthusiasm, infatuation spreads over all the benches; prudence gives way, all foresight disappears and every objection is stifled.

During the night of the 4th of August,[2109] "nobody is master of himself.