The French Revolution (Volume 2); A History

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: inquire into the subject-matter of controversy in this case; what the difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy might here be ? My-doxy is, that an august National Assembly can equalise the extent of Bishop- ricks; that an equalised Bishop, his Creed and Formularies being left quite as they were, can swear Fidelity to King, Law and Nation, and so become a Constitutional Bishop. Thy-doxy, if thou be Dissident, is that he cannot; but that he must become an accursed thing. Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming, And, like the ancient Stoics in their porches, With fierce dispute maintain their churches. This Auto-da-fl of Saint-Huruge's was on the Fourth of May 1791. Royalty sees it; but says nothing. CHAPTER III COUNT FERSEN Royalty, in fact, should, by this time, be far on with its preparations. Unhappily much preparation is needful. Could a Hereditary Representative be carried in leather vache, how easy were it! But it is not so. New Clothes are needed; as usual, in all Epic transactions, were it in the grimmest iron ages; consider 'Queen Chrimhilde, with her sixty sempstresses, in that iron Nibelungen Song I No Queen can stir without new clothes. Therefore, now, Dame Campan whisks assiduous to this mantua-maker and to that: and there is clipping of frocks and gowns, upper clothes and under, great and small; such a clipping and sewing, as might have been dispensed with. Moreover, her Majesty cannot go a step anywhither without her Ntcessaire; dear Ntcessaire, of inlaid ivory and rosewood, cunningly devised; which holds perfumes, toilette-implements, infinite small queenlike furnitures: necessary to ...