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Amour sacré de la patrie, Rends nous l'audace et la fierté; À mon pays je dois la vie, Il me devra sa liberté!" The immense audience, roused to patriotic enthusiasm, took up the words of the song and, rushing from the theatre en masse, paraded the streets, attacking the residences of the Dutch ministers, which they sacked and burned.
Hence the tiny fluctuations of Hilary Vane's seismograph an instrument, as will be shown, utterly out-of-date. Not so the motto toujours l'audace.
But I pledge myself to keep this Freethought flag flying at every hazard, and if I am temporarily disabled I pledge myself to unfurl it again, and if need be again, and again. De l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace." Mr. Wheeler stood loyally by me in this emergency. His efforts for our common object were untiring, and never was his pen wielded more brilliantly.
They know that at certain times the most businesslike of all qualities is 'l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace. The publisher may induce the poet to do a pot-boiler; but the publisher would cheerfully allow the poet to set the Mississippi on fire, if it would boil his particular pot.
Both Wordsworth and Byron were bitten by Rousseau; but the former is, at furthest, a Girondin. The latter, acting like Danton on the motto "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace," sighs after Henri Quatre et Gabrièlle.
That is greatly in your favour." "Why?" Hume disdained the police, but Brett's remark evoked curiosity. "Because Mr. Winter is a most excellent officer, whose intellect is shackled by handcuffs. 'De l'audace! says the Frenchman, as a specific for human conduct. 'Lock 'em up, says Mr. Winter, when he is inquiring into a crime.
Industry, and the motto "nil desperandum" lived up to, and the watchword "thorough," and a torch of unsuspected genius, and "l'audace, toujours l'audace," and a man may go far in life. Mr. Humphrey Crewe possessed, as may have been surmised, a dash of all these gifts. The phrase, after all, would have fitted very few great men; genius is sure of itself, and seeks its peers.
The danger is where Danton saw it when he cried to France: "De l'audace, de l'audace, et encore de l'audace." The bold thought first, and the bold deed will not fail to follow. We saw well the harm made by such fallacies in Russia in 1905-1907.
Was it not something of good fortune that it should lead him to identify and meet one whose very name was still unknown to him, but with whom he was, in a faint measure, on slight terms of confederacy through the confession of Olivia and the confidence of Mungo Boyd? "Toujours l'audace!" thought he, and he asked for the innkeeper's introduction to the performer.
Hence the tiny fluctuations of Hilary Vane's seismograph an instrument, as will be shown, utterly out-of-date. Not so the motto toujours l'audace.
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