Paris, 1884. 8vo.), tom. xxxiii. p. 427.

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Gibbon, vol. ix. p. 94.:--

"In every deed of mischief, he (Andronicus Comnenus) had a
heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

Cf. Voltaire, "Siècle de Louis XV." (_Oeuvres_, xxi. p. 67.):--

"Il (le Chevalier de Belle-Isle) était capable de tout
imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire."

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"Guerre aux chateaux, paix à la chaumière,"

ascribed to Condorcet, in _Edin. Rev._ April, 1800. p. 240. (_note_*)

By Thiers (_Hist. de la Rév. Franç._ Par. 1846. 8vo. ii. 283.), these
words are attributed to Cambon; while, in Lamartine's _Hist. des
Girondins_ (Par. 1847. 8vo.), Merlin is represented to have exclaimed
in the Assembly, "Déclarez la guerre aux rois et la paix aux nations."

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Macaulay's _Hist. of England_ (1st ed.), ii. 476:--

"But the iron stoicism of William never gave way: and he