 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...wishes ; " whereupon Mirabeau, springing to his feet, made the memorable answer, as given by Dumont, "Go tell your master that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall retire only at the point of the bayonet" (Allez dire & rotre maitre que nou.i sommes id par la... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - France - 1882 - 700 pages
...entrance of the grand-master of the ceremonies : " Go," he shouted, " and tell those who send you, that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not budge save at the point of the bayonet." This was the beginning of revolutionary violence.... | |
 | Arthur (fict. name.) - 1884 - 362 pages
...sent one of his ..officers to command them to disperse, Mirabeau made the famous answer: " Eeturn and tell your master that we are here by the will of the people, and that we will only be driven out at the point of the bayonet." Louis then, by the advice of the queen, took the unwise... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1180 pages
...entrance of the grand-master of the ceremonies : " Go," he shouted, " and tell those who send you, that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not budge save at the point of the bayonet." This was the beginning of revolutionary violence.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 452 pages
...to remind us of it. l ffMre Parlcmentaire, i. 13. Jane 22-33. Go, Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence ! " * And poor De Breze shivers forth from the... | |
 | Guizot (M., François), Madame de Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) - France - 1885 - 470 pages
...the entrance of the grand-master of the ceremonies: "Go," he shouted, " and tell those who send you, that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not budge save at the point of the bayonet." This was the beginning of revolutionary violence.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 384 pages
...right of speech here ; you are not the man to remind us of it. Go, Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence !"6 And poor De Brez6 shivers forth from the... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - History, Modern - 1888 - 800 pages
...in which they were sitting, Mirabeau closed a fiery speech with these bold words to the herald : " Go tell your master that we are here by the will of the people, and here we shall stay unless driven out by the bayonet." " The only man able to direct the storm of the... | |
 | 1888 - 636 pages
...the President. "Yes, sir," replied Mirabeau, speaking for France. "Go and tell those who sent you, that we are here by the will of the people, and that we will be driven hence by naught but the power of the bayonet." This is common historical knowledge; but it is... | |
 | Victor Duruy - France - 1889 - 786 pages
...have heard the orders of the king." Mirabeau rebuked him for his presumption, and replied: "Go and tell your master that we are here by the will of the people, and that we will be sent away only at the point of the bayonet." The Assembly immediately proclaimed the inviolability... | |
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Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets... 
