Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism: A Translation from the French of the Abbe Barruel...Hudson & Goodwin, 1799 - France |
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Page 198 - Gualtier returned with the answer, it was impossible for him to gain admittance to the patient. The conspirators had strained every nerve to hinder the Chief from consummating his recantation ; and every avenue was shut...
Page xv - Chrift, coalefced -with the Sophifters who, with the Occult Mafons, confpired againft both Chrift and kings. It was the coalition of the adepts of impiety, of the adepts of rebellion, and the adepts of anarchy, which formed the CLUB of the JACOBINS.
Page 199 - In vain he turned his head away; the time was coming apace when he was to appear before the tribunal of Him he had blasphemed; and his physicians, particularly Mr. Tronchin, calling in to administer relief, thunderstruck, retired, declaring the death of the impious man to be terrible indeed.
Page 198 - Begone ! I could have done without you all ; but you could not exist without me ! And what a wretched glory have you procured me !" Then would succeed the horrid remembrance of his conspiracy.
Page 198 - Voltaire had permitted this declaration to be carried to the Rector of St. Sulpice, and to the archbishop of Paris, to know whether it would be sufficient. When the Abbe Gualtier returned with the answer, it was impossible for him to gain admittance to the patient.
Page 199 - Jesus Christ !" And then complain that he was abandoned by God and man. The hand which had traced in ancient writ the sentence of an impious and reviling king, seemed to trace before his eyes, " Crush then, do crush the Wretch.
Page 197 - I, the underwritten, declare, that for these four days past, having been afflicted with a vomiting of blood, at the age of eighty-four, and not having been able to drag myself to the church, the Reverend the Rector of St. Sulpice having been pleased to add to his good works that of sending to me the Abbe...
Page 198 - Unfortunately, after the explanations we have feen him give of his exterior a6ls of religion, might there not be room for doubt ? Be that as it may, this is a public homage, paid to that religion in which he declared he meant to die, notwithftanding his having perpetually confpired againft it during his life. This declaration is alfo figned by that fame friend and adept the Marquis dc Villevieille to whom eleven years before, Voltaire was wont to write, " Conceal your march (( from the enemy in your...
Page 5 - Voltaire, man, in 1771, is a pure machine : Frederick then maintains that man is free. In one place we are free precifely becaufe we can form a clear idea of freedom. In another, man is all matter ; though one can hardly form a more confufed idea, than that of matter thinking, free, or arguing, though it were with Frederick's own verfatility s.
Page 197 - God to dispose of me, I die in the Holy Catholic church in which I was born ; hoping that the Divine mercy will deign to pardon all my faults : if ever I have scandalized the church, I ask pardon of God and of the Church. 2<f March, 1778. Signed, VOLTAIRE. " In the presence of the Abbe Mignot, my nephew, and the Marquis de Villeveille, my friend.