 | Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, Sir John Goronwy Edwards - Electronic journals - 1892 - 906 pages
...Upon this principle he acts, and the public voice is decidedly hi favour of this system. He is a stem man, rigid in his principles, plain, unaffected in...question of the forms of government, but I say that Robespierre is bond fide a republican, and that nothing which the king could bestow on him, were his... | |
 | David P. Jordan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 320 pages
...from an opinion that it is the very best, if not the only form of government which men ought to admit. He is a stern man, rigid in his principles, plain,...volatility of a Frenchman in his character. ... I watch him very closely every night. I read his countenance with eyes steadily fixed on him. He is really... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...deposition of the king. Robespierre "is cool, measured, and resolved," wrote one English observer. "He is a stern man, rigid in his principles, plain,...dress, certainly above corruption, despising wealth. ... He is in his heart Republican, honestly so, not to pay court to the multitude, but from an opinion... | |
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Orleans faction, will soon be of the first consideration. He is cool, measured, and resolved. He is in his heart Republican, honestly so, not to pay court to the multitude, but from an opinion that it is the very best, if not the only, form of government... 