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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426

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Title: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852

Author: Various

Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers

Release Date: October 27, 2005 [EBook #16953]

Language: English

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CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL

CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.

NO. 426. NEW SERIES. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1852. PRICE 1½d.

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TIME'S REVIEW OF CHARACTER.

ROBESPIERRE.

Some characters are a puzzle to history, and none is more so than that of Robespierre. According to popular belief, this personage was a blood-thirsty monster, a vulgar tyrant, who committed the most unheard-of enormities, with the basely selfish object of raising himself to supreme power--of becoming the Cromwell of the Revolution. Considering that Robespierre was for five years--1789 to 1794--a prime leader in the political movements in France; that for a length of time he was personally concerned in sending from forty to fifty heads to the scaffol

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