How much more suitable was grapeshot than the beatitudes.

The lesson was stored up for future use at a somewhat similar crisis on this very spot.
During the few days when victorious Paris left Louis with the sham title of king, Buonaparte received his captain's commission, which was signed for the king by Servan, the War Minister.

Thus did the revolutionary Government pass over his double breach of military discipline at Ajaccio.

The revolutionary motto, "La carriere ouverte aux talents," was never more conspicuously illustrated than in the facile condoning of his offences and in this rapid promotion.

It was indeed a time fraught with vast possibilities for all republican or Jacobinical officers.