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Three years later Louis Napoleon seized the post of power, and, as President of the Republic, his head figures on a stamp issued in 1851, under the inscription "REPUB. FRANC." Two years later the Empire was re-established, and the words "REPUB. FRANC." were changed to "EMPIRE FRANC." over the same head.
He wrote innumerable pamphlets and broadsides, and some poems, of which the best are Shore's Wife , The Worthiness of Wales repub. by the Spenser Society , and Churchyard's Chips , an autobiographical piece. Actor and dramatist, b. in London, s. of a Danish sculptor, and ed. at Grantham School. Soon after his return to London he took to the stage.
and to turn all our barricadoes and bulwarks topsy-turvy, I find that, by divers causes, indigence is as frequently seen to inhabit with those who have estates as with those that have none; and that, peradventure, it is then far less grievous when alone than when accompanied with riches. These flow more from good management than from revenue; "Faber est suae quisque fortunae" Sallust, De Repub.
And notably in a great sea-fight which befell off Ushant on the first of June Our Admiral, messire Villaret de Joyeuse, on board his galleon named the 'Vengeur, being sore pressed by an English bombard, rather than yield the crew of his ship to mercy, determined to go down with all on board of her: and to the cry of Vive la Repub or, I would say, of Notre Dame a la Rescousse, he and his crew all sank to an immortal grave "
Thereafter he contributed to the Quarterly Review, and repub. his articles as Stokers and Pokers Highways and Byways, and wrote a Life of Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller. He was made a Baronet in 1836.
Brassey, and, as the demand for his historical works fell off, he repub. parts of them as individual biographies of Las Casas, Columbus, Pizarro, and Cortez. He also tried the drama, but without success.
Becoming deeply interested in political and social questions he contributed to reviews and magazines many papers and essays on these subjects, which were repub. in three collections, viz., Essays on Political and Social Science , Literary and Social Judgments , and Miscellaneous Essays . Other works of his are Enigmas of Life , Rocks Ahead , and Mistaken Aims, etc. . In his writings he frequently manifested a distrust of democracy and a pessimistic view of the future of his country.
Let the man alone stop yer pullin I'll bust yer ear for yer yet. My Cot, my Cot, what tam dimes dese 'lections is. Well yez crowd a poor Jarman till death, yer d d spalpanes, yez? Sen Coff Senterberry and Coffinter Working Men's Repub Dem-whoop-h- l-whooray-bully-y-e-o-u-c-h!!
Thereafter he wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, in which appeared his Gamekeeper at Home, and Wild Life in a Southern County , both afterwards repub. Both these works are full of minute observation and vivid description of country life. They were followed by The Amateur Poacher , Wood Magic , Round about a Great Estate , The Open Air , and others on similar subjects.
As Plato, Lib. 5 de Repub., would not have it called war, but sedition, when the Greeks took up arms against one another, and that therefore, when such combustions should arise amongst them, his advice was to behave themselves in the managing of them with all discretion and modesty. Although you call it war, it is but superficial; it entereth not into the closet and inmost cabinet of our hearts.
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