ISBN: 1103792547

[EAN: 9781103792542], Neubuch, JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can downloa… Plus…

[EAN: 9781103792542], Neubuch, JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1912. Excerpt: . . . THE PRINCIPLES OF 1789 I Nearly a century and a quarter has elapsed since the French National Assembly issued a remarkable manifesto in which it discussed the nature, extent, and general beneficence of the Revolution. After only six or seven months of work the Assembly ventured to claim that under its auspices an old and corrupt nation had been born again into liberty; the rights of man, misconceived and insulted for centuries, had been reestablished for all mankind; privileges without number which had formed the public law of France had been abolished forever. Is there a single citizen worthy of the name, it exclaims, who dares to look back, -- who would once more rebuild the ruins which surround us in order to contemplate again the former structure Yet not a few have dared to look back with regret, even with yearning, upon that Ancien Regime whose ruins the Assembly so plentifully sowed with the salt of its contempt. Indeed, a writer of our own day, M. Charles dHericault, solemnized the one hundredth anniversary of the meeting of the Estates General by rebuilding the ancient edifice with idyllic grace and 195 peopling it with a happy and virtuous throng who had lived together in blessed concord until they suffered themselves to be alienated from God and their king by the satanic obsession of the Revolution. According to M. dHericault, the Ancien Regime had served to develop in the highest degree in each social class those particular qualities required in order that all might work together toward the organization of a perfect society. There was, first of all, the priest, wise, venerable, devoted; then the former despot, now transformed into a courtly and respected king; and the soldier, now a polished nobleman, the soul of honor. The bourgeoisie were rich, dignified, an. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

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ISBN: 9781103792542

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ISBN: 1103792547

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