Excerpt from An Eulogy on Lafayette: Delivered in Bloomington, Indiana, on the Ninth of May, 1835, at the Request of the Citizens and Students The view which I shall endeavor, as briefly as possible, to present to you, Of the part acted bv Lafayette in the course Of that wonderful, and in some respects atrocious revolution, is one which, I must confess, has left upon my own mind a deeper impression and a higher admiration both of his talents and virtues, than have resulted from that portion of his history which has ...
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Excerpt from An Eulogy on Lafayette: Delivered in Bloomington, Indiana, on the Ninth of May, 1835, at the Request of the Citizens and Students The view which I shall endeavor, as briefly as possible, to present to you, Of the part acted bv Lafayette in the course Of that wonderful, and in some respects atrocious revolution, is one which, I must confess, has left upon my own mind a deeper impression and a higher admiration both of his talents and virtues, than have resulted from that portion of his history which has just passed swiftly under review; rich though it is, in the display Of generosity, humanity, patriotism, philan thropy and military Virtue. In this I may be singular, but my honest conviction is, that the theatre, emphatically the theatre Of Lafayette's greatest glory, is the French revolution. Here he will, in the eye Of posterity, stand in the most amiable as well as the most commanding attitude. I speak Of him in a moral, not in a political sense. In this last respect another figure will seem more gigantic than his. But, as seen through the pure medium Of reason and truth, Napoleon will bear no more proportion to Lafayette than a pigmy to a colossus. Even a summary Of the causes which lead to the French revolution cannot now be given. Did even time permit, the speaker would hardly presume to undertake such a task. In order to gain such a View of the person and position of Lafay ette as mav answer our purpose at present, it will be only necessary to glance at the state Of things in France at the time when Lafayette was placed at the head of the militia, or as they were called, the national guards of that kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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