France in Eighteen Hundred And Two: Described in a Series of Contemporary ...
France in Eighteen Hundred And Two: Described in a Series of Contemporary ...
Henry Redhead Yorke, J. A. C. Sykes, Lady Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck Sykes
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In vain do they flatter themselves that by the arts of a meretricious rhetoric they elude the vigilant pursuit of injured innocence and affronted justice, in vain do they suppose that they shall court foreign applause by associat- ing with the learned of other countries. It is a disgrace and a dishonour to be favoured by the National Institute where a band of sanguinary ruffians pollute the halls consecrated to learning, science and wisdom. Whoever lives under a government where religion, moral...s and public freedom are revered, ought to reject their silver * See Appendix. Digitized by Google MUSEUM OF THE LOUVRE 153 medal and prods verbal^ as he would cast away from him food contaminated with poison. If it be an honour to be elected a member of a society, learned, indeed, but fundamentally vicious and depraved, why not petition to be admitted to the Palace of Pandemonium ? The devils in hell are fully as knowing as the members of the Institute, and, for ought I know, not done greater evil to mankind.
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