This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 Excerpt: ...in the assistance which, by their account, all the so-vereigns of Europe were to afford them. The malcontents multiplied, in proportion as the National Assembly proceeded in its reformations: its most zear lous partisans were sometimes astonished at its boldness, and its enemies affected to despise it for imprudence. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 Excerpt: ...in the assistance which, by their account, all the so-vereigns of Europe were to afford them. The malcontents multiplied, in proportion as the National Assembly proceeded in its reformations: its most zear lous partisans were sometimes astonished at its boldness, and its enemies affected to despise it for imprudence. They were persuaded, that its labours would endure but for a moment, and that the nation would, ere long, be obliged to return to the late government, or, at least, to accept the conditions of the seance royale, of the paternal wisdom of which conditions they still boasted without intermission. Determined on regaining their rights, or, at least, to obtain revenge or to perish, they employed at once all the means which each derived from his former dignity, or from his former influence. The army had been ever their hope; no pains were spared to detach-it from the interests of the nation: but the regiments gave, emulously, the most convincing proofs of p- triotisin; and, from that moment, the army became divided, like the nation, into two distinct parties, the privileged orders and the third, estate, the officers and the private soldiers. Attempts were next made to sow division amongst the regiments, to discontent them and corrupt them; this was attended with some unhappy consequences in Hainault, a frontier of the Emperor; in Languedoc, where the emigrants maintained a correspondence from Nice and from Turin? but the virtue of the nation, the patriotism which resulted frpm it, and the sol diery, which had been deceiyed, soon discovered the error which they had committed; they themselves complained loudly of the perfidious productions, by which their enemies were endeavouring to make them hate the constitution. The tribunals still existing, e...
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