Page images
PDF
EPUB

wished to have a republican form of government in France. As an avowed free-thinker, he shocked the pious, and was traduced by the hypocritical. As a man of wit, he was dreaded and detested by the dull; and as his talents for conducting a popular assembly were unequalled, he was an object of envy to all who aspired to be leaders in the revolution.

The excesses in which Mirabeau had indulged, overcame the force of a vigorous constitution, and brought him to his grave at the age of forty

two.

His death was an irreparable loss to the royal family; for there is reason to think, that had he lived, those who have since figured as principals in the revolution, would have acted very subordinate parts. His superior talents, would have given such energy to the first movements of the new constitution, as would have precluded the attempts of the republicans against it on the one hand, and those of the abettors of the old government on the other. The friends of limited monarchy would have united.

Mirabeau himself, imagined, that he could have preserved the constitution; but he foresaw its destruction in his death; and a little before he expired, he predicted that the French monarchy would not survive him long.

SENSIBLE REASONER.

A TRAVELLER expressed his surprise to an inhabitant of Lisbon that they should have ven. tured to raise their houses to such an height in a town so lately overthrown by an earthquake.

"It is because it has been so lately overthrown," he replied, "that we venture, for as other capitals in Europe deserve an earthquake as much as Lisbon, it is reasonable to believe that they will all over be overthrown in their turn, according to their deserts; and of course, it will be a long time before it comes round to Lisbon again."

[blocks in formation]

GENERAL INDEX

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

A.

ADMIRATION and Devotion, expressed at the sight of

the Pope, Pius V.

Advice to a young Traveller

unwelcome to an Englishman

Antinous, Bon Mot on his picture, been placed in the fa-

[blocks in formation]

Page

100

-

161

-

205

41

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]
[ocr errors]
[ocr errors][merged small]

Architecture (Gothic) built for posterity, and as
dwelling for heavenly contemplation
Aristocratical (Nature not)

Armies, (standing) are the support of Despotism
Aversion, (reasonable) an humorous dialogue

B.

Barracks, should be rare in Great Britain

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

Beauty and Deformity, their effect on the female cha-

racter

Believer (the) and Atheist, a Díalogue

Berlin, description of

Biscayan (the) proud of his independence; a character-
istic dialogue

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Blindness (political) exemplified in some predictions of

Mirabeau

VOL. I.

[ocr errors]

Books, utility of them

T

Brunetta, (Countess) sketch of her character
Bull (John) is quarrelsome, when angry
(Golden) a bon mot

C.

Cakes (the land of) eulogy on

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Canaille, an obsolete word-an anecdote

Characters (various European)

Chimnies, method proposed for sweeping them

264

178

28

43

ib.

190

[ocr errors][merged small]
[ocr errors]

-

54

Clergy (the) manifested their public spirit in building

[merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

Character of those thus called in the high world
Condition of a soldier, its severity explained in a dia-
logue

Connoisseur, humorous instance of Connoisseurship in a
French Officer

Cocagna, description of this Neapolitan amusement
Commerce flies from the grasp of despotism

Commoner, (the sedate) an humorous anecdote

Consultation, a characteristic dialogue

Courtier, (the) how affectionate

sincere

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Cruelty and Courage meet sometimes in the same breast 205
Custom (Royal) of eating in public is not amusing
Christian (the true) a moral dialogue

[blocks in formation]
[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small]

Dependents very dangerous company for youth
Deer Hunting in Spain, the manner of described
Descriptions tedious, when too often repeated
Despotism and Anarchy, the second renders the first less
odious

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

Dictionary (charms of a) described by a lady-an anecdote

Discipline (Military) improved in Germany, by great severity

Discontent singular instance of it

Divinity (Kingly) ridiculed by Shakespeare

Page

32

193

113

287

Drums (Military) commanding devotion-an anecdote 187 Dutchmun, instance of his phlegmatic temper

E.

Education (British) English youth more successfully educated in England than on the continent Eloquence (model of) ridiculous

Empereur, a French anecdote of the late Emperor Jo

[merged small][ocr errors]

Emperor of Morocco, much beloved by his subjects-a

[blocks in formation]

England, praise of by Mirabeau

English Beauty, more striking in the country

-an anecdote

Englishmen naturally melancholic

[blocks in formation]

203

85

180

[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

Ennui, intoxication, a pernicious contrivance to cure it 237

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]
[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors]

Ferocity, horrid instance of it in a French youth
Fighting (for one's Country) amusing to mankind
Firmness, a remarkable instance of it in an English
Sailor

[blocks in formation]

Fortunes (Great) prove often the misfortune of youth 30

Frankfort on the Main, its description
Frederic the Great, sketch of his character

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]
« PreviousContinue »