Excerpt from Lectures on History, Second and Concluding Series, Vol. 2 of 3: On the French Revolution Now I do not see a single remark of. This kind in the his torian, though he was writing, as he says in the preface, not in 1789, but some time after, when the constitution was made, ' and when the mistakes of it were already, one might have thought, sufficiently displayed. We will now refer to the other history which I mentioned, the history of the Two Friends of Liberty: the state of the Assembly and Of Paris, and the warning it holds out to all who love freedom, is still more distinctly seen in this history Of the Two Friends of Liberty. The whole subject of the constitution, as it appears from this work, was thoroughly discussed both within the Assembly and without; the nature Of the rights of man, the veto, and the two chambers, all were made matter of the most lively contest and debate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.