Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 - Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852

TIME'S REVIEW OF CHARACTER. INFANT SCHOOLS IN HUNGARY. THE LOSING GAME. PARTNERSHIP IN COMMANDITE. RECENT FIRE-PANICS. THINGS TALKED OF IN LONDON. A WORD TO GENTEEL EMIGRANTS. COLOURS IN LADIES' DRESS. SITTING ON THE SHORE. THE PALO DE VACA, OR COW-TREE OF BRAZIL. Some characters are a puzzle to history, and none is more so than that of Robespierre. According to popular belief, this personage was a blood-thirsty monster, a vulgar tyrant, who committed the most unheard-of enormities, with the basely selfish object of raising himself to supreme powerof becoming the Cromwell of the Revolution. Considering that Robespierre was for five years1789 to 1794a prime leader in the political movements in France; that for a length of time he was personally concerned in sending from forty to fifty heads to the scaffold per diem; and that the Reign of Terror ceased immediately on his overthrowit is not surprising that his character is associated with all that is villainous and detestable. Nevertheless, as the obscurities of the great revolutionary drama clear up, a strange suspicion begins to be entertained, that the popular legend respecting Robespierre is in a considerable degree fallacious; nay, it is almost thought that this man was, in reality, a most kind-hearted, simple, unambitious, and well-disposed individuala person who, to say the least of it, deeply deplored the horrors in which considerations of duty had unhappily involved him. To attempt an unravelment of these contradictions, let us call up the phantom of this mysterious personage, and subject him to review. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 16953
Author: Various
Release Date: Oct 27, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 , Chambers, William, 1800-1883