eroyt prendre alouettes."

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"Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine."

Pope's _Essay on Criticism_, pp. 524, 525.

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"Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

Ib. pp. 624, 625.

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The Emperor Alexander of Russia is said to have declared himself
"un accident heureux." The expression occurs in Mad. de Stael's
_Allemagne_, Sec. xvi.:--

"Mais quand dans un etat social le bonbeur lui-meme n'est,
pour ainsi dire, _qu'un accident heureux_ ... le patriotisme a
peu de perseverance."

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Gibbon, _Decl. and Fall_ (Lond. 1838. 8vo.), i. 134.:--

"His (T. Antoninus Pius') reign is marked by the rare
advantage of furnishing very few materials for history;
which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes,
follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

Gibbon's first volume was published in 1776, and Voltaire's _Ingenii_
in 1767. In the latter we find--

"En effet, l'historie n'est que le tableau des crimes
et des malheurs."--_Oeuvres de Voltaire_ (ed. Beuchot.
Paris, 1884. 8vo.), tom. xxxiii. p. 427.

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Gibbon, vol. ix. p. 94.:--

"In every deed of mischief, he (Andronicus Comnenus) had a
heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Cf. Voltaire, "Siecle de Louis XV." (_Oeuvres_, xxi. p. 67.):--

"Il (le Chevalier de Belle-Isle) etait capable de tout
imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire."

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"Guerre aux chateaux, paix a la chaumiere,"

ascribed to Condorcet, in _Edin. Rev._ April, 1800. p. 240. (_note_*)

By Thiers (_Hist. de la Rev. Franc._ Par. 1846. 8vo. ii. 283.), these
words are attributed to Cambon; while, in Lamartine's _Hist. des
Girondins_ (Par. 1847. 8vo.), Merlin is represented to have exclaimed
in the Assembly, "Declarez la guerre aux rois et la paix aux nations."

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Macaulay's _Hist. of England_ (1st ed.), ii. 476:--

"But the iron stoicism of William never gave way: and he
stood among his weeping friends calm and austere, as if he
had been about to leave them only for a short visit to his
hunting-grounds at Loo."