"Strange lot! Forty years of that smouldering with foul fire-damp and
vapour enough; then victory over that ;-and, like a burning mountain, he
blazes heaven high; and for twenty-three resplendent months pours out, in
flame and molten fire-torrents, all that is in him, the Pharos and Wonder-
sign of an amazed Europe;-and then lies hollow, cold, for ever!"

CARLYLE'S French Revolution.

VOL. I. TRIAL!

Smith,
John

Store

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

1848.

The Publishers reserve to themselves the right of authorizing

the publication of a German translation.

London:

Printed by STEWART and MURRAY,
Old Bailey.

I DEDICATE

These Volumes

то ONE WHO, BEYOND ALL OTHERS,

WILL REJOICE AT THEIR APPEARANCE,

AND WHO, KIND CRITIC AS SHE IS,

WILL SEE FEW FAULTS THEREIN

ΤΟ

MY MOTHER.