Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. No. i. Unpublished Fragments Of Camille Desmoulins' Writings. All that comes from the pen of a great writer has a real importance, and especially whatever is left unfinished and can give, not a more perfect, but a more lifelike, idea of him. In certain fragments by political writers, as in a painter's sketches, though barely outlined, we discover the personality, the manner, and, as it were, the peculiar bent of the author's talent. The unpublished fragments which follow are therefore given as sketches. It will be seen in them how Desmoulins 'worked, making orderly notes tabulated as subjects and words, so that the journalist had at his disposal an alphabetical repertory, a portable arsenal of quotations. More than one article merely begun will also be found in these Notes. I have had to select from among them so as not to make my volume too large. The authenticity of these Fragments is indisputable; M. Carteron copied them from Camille s manuscripts, in the possession of Baron Girardot; a piece of good luck by which zee have profited, thanks to the politeness of M. F. Lock, who had these documents from M. Edouard Carteron. Manners of the Romans. Romulus divides the soil of the country into three parts: one for religion; another for the support of the government; he distributes the third' portion among the citizens. Hence, no taxes. In the beginning there were patricians and plebeians in Rome; but this distinction of the patricians in the beginning, the word patrici, meant only, some authors say, those who could give the name of their fathers. How many bastards there must have been in the thirty-five tribes! The dignity of a prince of the Senate conferred only rank, without power. This post was, however, most honourable, ..