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, "surely it will close _now_, and France will at length have rest and
peace." But we were doomed to be disappointed, time after time. One
explosion followed another until the heart sickened "with hope
deferred," and we turned away our eyes at last in despair from the
appalling spectacle. It was this slow, vacillating, indecisive course of
the former revolution which generated all the causes that conspired to
defeat it. The Bastile was stormed in 1789. It was not until the latter
part of 1792 that the unfortunate monarch was deposed. During these
three years, though strokes of great boldness were struck, one after
another, yet none of them were of a decisive character: none of them
indicated a fixed point at which the revolution was to stop: while they
were all of a character to alarm, to exasperate and to raise up powerful
enemies to the revolution both at home and abroad. Thus, in 1789
privileges and distinctions of orders were abolished, and the hitherto
sacred revenues of the church suffered a deep encroachment. In 1790
titles of nobility, with all their _insignia_ of emblasoned arms and
feudal power, w