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Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o acquire an interest inpoliticks. The longer the press had remained mute, the greater theim()ression it now produced; the ideas of freedom and equahty,mingled with many errors, seized upon their minds. For the liberr.lpart of elevated society the salon of Madame de Stael formed theplace of reunion until her death (1817). At that time a Left wingbegan to separate from the ministerial party, — a coterie of intellectualmen, distinguished by such names as Royer-CoUard, Camille Jordan,de Serre, Beugnot, Guizot, Barante, and the duke of Broglie. Thestrictly logical forms with which this faction defended their doctrines DOCTRINAIRES. — INDEPENDENTS. 123 gciiiud Hov tluMii from their adversaries tht; name of ductriiKttrcs.Unyielding in lluir theories, full of unbounded eonlidenee in thatwhich is simply reasonable, knowing no middle course, no concessionto facts, and therefore unpractical and unpopular, tliey were danger-ous at a time when parties, being destitute of experience, were dis-
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iic;. l::. — Ch:.LL !i(l. Frniii a paintiuic by Girddit-Triosson (1707-1824). posed to adhere rigorously to certain principks. Still farther to tlieLeft stood the so-called Inde()endents, who gathered around BenjaminConstant, one of the most formidable debatei-s in the chamber, ))utfeeble in health in consequence of an irregular life. To them be-longed the upright, but ambitious and vain Dupont de IEure, thepopularity-craving Lafayette, to whom sometliing of the sensibility 124 INTERNAL Ills TORY OF FRANCE FROM IS 15 TO 1830. of the eighteenth century always adhered, and finally Manuel, anirreconcilable enemy of the Bourbons, feared on account of the in-trepid, sarcastic calmness with wliich in the chamber he encounteredthe hatred of the Right. If the Liberals cared for the voice of thenation, they would have felt themselves impelled to sustain the kingand liis goverimient against the extreme measures of the Ultras.Instead of tliis, through impatience, through that tendency to ex-tr

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