MEMOIR. x 



in society, particularly in my youth, 

 passionate and violent. But I must, in 

 justice to myself, say, in the first place, I 

 have not shown any considerable instance 

 of this kind for nearly twenty years ; and 

 in the second, that I did never show one, 

 even before that time, in any matter of 

 consequence, or when I had any respect 

 for the person with whom I differed. In 

 confirmation of both these remarks, I shall 

 mention, first, that I have never had the 

 smallest difference with any one of my five 

 most intimate friends ; and secondly, that 

 I have borne the grossest insult, when it 

 was unmanly to take immediate notice 

 of it. 



From the time of the murder of the 

 princess of Lamballe, I foresaw the ruin 

 of all civilized society in France, and 

 dreaded a similar ruin of all civilized 



