Paris, which for sixty years past has been the City of Insurrections. The French People had plumed themselves on being, whatever else they were not, at least the chosen "soldiers of liberty," who took the lead of all creatures in that pursuit, at least; and had become, as their orators, editors and litterateurs diligently taught them, a People whose bayonets were sacred, a kind of Messiah People, saving a blind world in its own despite, and earning for themselves a terrestrial and even celestial glory very considerable indeed.


Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850) - The Present Time (February 1, 1850)

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Paris, which for sixty years past has been the City of Insurrections. The French People had plumed themselves on being, whatever else they were not,...

Paris, which for sixty years past has been the City of Insurrections. The French People had plumed themselves on being, whatever else they were not,...

Paris, which for sixty years past has been the City of Insurrections. The French People had plumed themselves on being, whatever else they were not,...

Paris, which for sixty years past has been the City of Insurrections. The French People had plumed themselves on being, whatever else they were not,...