1 The nation, attacked one morning with weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession of so much force that it did not go into a rage.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT 2 The approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of the government.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 3 There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the wrong, the other is in the right.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 4 There is no insurrection except in a forward direction.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 5 is insurrection; Hebert against Danton is revolt.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 7 There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 8 Under the Caesars, there was no insurrection, but there was Juvenal.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 9 But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 10 In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 11 In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 12 Universal suffrage has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 13 Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there of an improvisation.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 14 The Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 15 The insurrection had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized nearly all the posts of the garrison.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS