1 A whole political school called "the golden mean" has been the outcome of this.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 2 Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became manifest.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 3 The old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth it can no longer be employed in politics.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 4 These men left to political parties the question of rights, they occupied themselves with the question of happiness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 5 If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 6 The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, and the necessary base of her politics.
7 The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 8 In civilization, such as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 9 Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful commotions which were formerly called jacqueries, beside which purely political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of discomfort against comfort.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 10 Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pepin or Morey, they might very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN