1 This very small change had effected a revolution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 2 A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 3 This terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 4 Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 5 As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to prepare the shipwreck.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 6 He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we have just described was effected within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 7 In this way, say they, peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair the house, can be had after a revolution.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 8 In the establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 9 They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 10 In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his father.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 11 If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 12 This strange revolution had hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood.
13 A composite individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the past with the future.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 14 A metaphysical school of the North, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the word Will.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 15 It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines progress.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 16 Every revolution, being a normal outcome, contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives even when stained with blood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 17 According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty.
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