Tales: National and Revolutionary

Excerpt from Tales: National and RevolutionaryEvery account, too, of the heroism of our fair countrywomen,' cannot fail at all times of accept ance.' We know that in the period of the Revolu tion, one spirit actuated all classes and both sexes and though we were not driven to the extremity of having women take the field - yet we may be assur cd, that the encouragement which the language and manners of females held out to perseverance in those times of trial, had a great influence on society; and had occasion called for it, we should have seen them' rivalling the females of antiquity, and exhibiting the same Spirit that characterized the women of France, during the reign of terror, and of still more suffering Greece.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.