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The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes
The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes Author:Thomas Carlyle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Drama / Continental European Literary Criticism / European / German Philosophy / Aesthetics Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ... more »may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: This is the Cannonade of Valmy; wherein the World-Poet experimented on the cannon-fever; wherein the French Sansculottes did not fly like poultry. Precious to France! Every soldier did his duty, and Alsatian Kellermann (how preferable to old Liickner the dismissed !) began to become greater; and figalitt Ftts, Equality Junior, a light gallant Field-Officer, distinguished himself by intrepidity : -- it is the same intrepid individual who now, as Louis-Philippe, without the Equality, struggles, under sad circumstances, to be called King of the French for a season. CHAPTER VIII EXEUNT Bur this Twentieth of September is otherwise a great day. For, observe, while Kellermann's horse was flying blown from under him at the Mill of Valmy, our new National Deputies, that shall be a National Convention, are hovering and gathering about the Hall of the Hundred Swiss: with intent to constitute themselves! On the morrow, about noontide, Camus the Archivist is busy 'verifying their powers'; several hundreds of them already here. Whereupon the Old Legislative comes solemnly over, to merge its old ashes phoenix-like in the body of the new; -- and so forthwith, returning all solemnly back to the Salle de Manege, there sits a National Convention, Seven- hundred and Forty-nine complete, or complete enough; -presided by Pe"tion; -- which proceeds directly to do business. Read that reported afternoon's-debate, O Reader; there are few debates like it: ...« less