Memoir of Count de Montalembert: A Chapter of Recent French History, Volume 2B. Touchnitz, 1872 |
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Page 70 - And he saith unto him, -Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Page 172 - ... strength in conflict with weakness. " ' Permit me a familiar comparison. When a man is condemned to struggle against a woman, if that woman is not the most degraded of beings, she may defy him with impunity. She tells him, " Strike ! but you will disgrace yourself, and you will not conquer me.
Page 216 - ... incendiary Journal on the 14th, and in the Times on the 16th. He there exults in the coup d'etat as having been also a coup de grace to all Socialists, Revolutionists, and Bandits throughout France and Europe — a sufficient reason, he fairly adds, for all honest men to rejoice. On the one side he lauds the Dictatorship ' of a Prince who has rendered for three years incomparable services to the cause of order and Catholicism.
Page 57 - Catholics — should we consent to be but fools and cowards ? Are we to acknowledge ourselves such bastards, so degenerated from the condition of our fathers, that we must give up our reason to rationalism, deliver our conscience to the university, our dignity and our freedom into the hands of law-makers whose hatred for the freedom of the Church is equalled only by their profound ignorance of her rights and her doctrines? What! because we are of those who confess, do they suppose that we rise from...
Page 107 - I defy any man to find a single word fallen from my pen or from my lips which has not been devoted to the cause of freedom. Freedom: ah! I can speak without seeking fine expressions. She has been the idol of my soul; if I have anything to reproach myself with, it is that I have loved her too much, that I have loved her as one loves when one is young, without measure, without limit. But I neither reproach myself for this, nor do I regret it; I will continue to serve Freedom, to love her always, to...
Page 373 - his charming and beloved child entered that library which all his friends know so well, and said to him, ' I am fond of everything around me. I love pleasure, wit, society and its amusements ; I love my family, my studies, my companions, my youth, my life, my country : but I love God better than all, and I desire to give myself to him.
Page 220 - I am unable to find a motive that can justify or excuse voluntary selfannihilation. ' I now come to the third course — namely, the affirmative vote. Now, to vote for Louis Napoleon is not to approve all he has done ; it is only to choose between him and the total ruin of France. It does not mean that his government is the one we prefer to all others; it is simply to say that we prefer a prince who has given proofs of resolution and ability to those who are at this moment giving their proofs of...
Page 105 - Let no one say, as certain generous but blind spirits have said, that radicalism is the exaggeration of liberalism ; no, it is its antipodes, its extreme opposite. Radicalism is nothing more than an exaggeration of despotism: and never has despotism taken a more odious form.
Page 104 - ... the attempt was made by absolute monarchies, and this year it is committed by pretended Liberals, who at bottom are tyrants of the worst class. What we have witnessed was the same then as now — the abuse of force, the suffocation of liberty and right by brutal and impious violence — the violence of pledged faith, the reign of the greater number, the assumption by Force of Falsehood as its arms and attire. . . . There is, however, when I consider these two crimes, a difference which I cannot...