considerable in those days he can by speech violent meal at and at by fire and he down by the word of his mouth the governor him though it is as a roman triumph and more he is chosen for two places has to decline and honor let his enemies look and wonder and sigh forgotten by him for thb too the career at last opens at last does not the benevolent reader though never so a little with this poor brother mortal in such a case victory is always joyful but to think of such a man in the hour when twelve labors he does finally triumph so long he fought with the many headed of and panting and with it for life or death � forty long stem years and now he has it under his heel the mountain tops are are where the man climbed on sharp slippery in s miscellaneous writings darkness seen by no kind eye � amid the brood of and the heart many times was like to fail within him in his loneliness in his extreme need yet he climbed and climbed his footsteps in his blood and now behold like he has it and on the summit shakes his glittering of war i what a scene and new kingdom for him all bathed in radiance of hope far solemn joyful what wild s music from the depths of nature comes through the soul raised suddenly out of death into victory and life the very we think might weep with this tears of joy which alas will become tears of sorrow for know o son of adam and son of with that accursed ambition of thine that they are all a delusion and piece of these same ments and s tones the thing thou as mortal is what is called t or peace which god knows thou wilt never get so happy they that find it without such searching but in some months more of blazing splendor and tion this will be ashes and lie in the of great men or say french of considerable or even of considered and small noisy men � at rest nowhere save on the lap of his mother earth there are to whom the gods in their give glory but far it is given in wrath as a curse and a poison disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man leading onward through dizzy rings and � towards no saint s shrine truly if death did not or still more happily if life and the public were not a and sudden unreasonable oblivion were not to follow that sudden unreasonable glory and i most damp it down � one of sees not where many a poor glorious man still more many a poor glorious woman for it falls harder on the distinguished female could � far short of on the th day of may madame de looking from a window in the main street of amid an assembled world as the walked in procession from the church of dame to that of saint louis to hear high mass and be constituted states general saw this among these who had been to the third estate above all others the de the opinion men had of his genius was singularly by the fear entertained of his and yet it was this very which the influence his faculties were to secure him you could not but look long at this man when once you had noticed him his immense black head of hair distinguished him among them ail you would have said his force depended on it like that of his face borrowed new expression from its very his whole person gave you the idea of an irregular power but a power such as you would figure in a of the people s history through the first months of the revolution falls not to be written here yet it is well worth writing somewhere the assembly when his name was first read out received it with murmurs not knowing what they murmured at this honorable member they were murmuring over was the member of all members the august without mm were no at all very notable truly is his in this section of world history by far the single element there none like to him or second to him once he is seen visibly to have saved as with his own force the existence of the assembly to have turned the whole tide of things in one of those mo s miscellaneous writings ments which are cardinal decisive for centuries the royal declaration of the twenty third of june is there is military force enough there is then the king s express order to to meet as separate third estate on the morrow and may be the penalty of his voice to encourage others all pallid panic stricken to supreme de enters with the king s renewed order to depart said de you heard the king s order the of out these words that have become memorable yes we heard what the king was advised to say and you who cannot be of his meaning to the states general you who have neither vote nor seat nor right of speech here you are not the man to remind us of it go tell those who sent you that we are here by will of the nation and that nothing but the force of can drive us hence and poor de � back foremost the says but this cardinal moment though it be is perhaps among his smaller in general we would say once more with emphasis he has les he goes through the revolution like a substance and a force not like a of one while innumerable barren and constitution are building with such and their august paper constitution which endured eleven months this man looks not at and social but at things and men what is to 