Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte and His TimesJ.B. Perry, 1855 - 504 pages |
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... Egypt confirmed his destiny ruin itself only elevated him to the empire ! But if his fortune was great , his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils , and it was the same to decide and to perform . To inferior ...
... Egypt confirmed his destiny ruin itself only elevated him to the empire ! But if his fortune was great , his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils , and it was the same to decide and to perform . To inferior ...
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... Egypt , he immediately sought out the old woman , with whom he stopped and conversed for some time . After- wards , on being made consul , he settled on her a pen- sion of fifty Napoleons a year . This good woman , having heard of the ...
... Egypt , he immediately sought out the old woman , with whom he stopped and conversed for some time . After- wards , on being made consul , he settled on her a pen- sion of fifty Napoleons a year . This good woman , having heard of the ...
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... EGYPT . The taking possession of Egypt was planned by Na- poleon himself ; and the Directory , who had already experienced the value of his military skill , prepared an expedition . On the 1th of May , 1798 , Bonaparte sailed from ...
... EGYPT . The taking possession of Egypt was planned by Na- poleon himself ; and the Directory , who had already experienced the value of his military skill , prepared an expedition . On the 1th of May , 1798 , Bonaparte sailed from ...
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... Egypt Bonaparte was continu- ally employed . His remarkable saying to the pupils of a school which he had one day visited , " Young people , every hour of time lost , is a chance of misfortune for future life , " may be considered as ...
... Egypt Bonaparte was continu- ally employed . His remarkable saying to the pupils of a school which he had one day visited , " Young people , every hour of time lost , is a chance of misfortune for future life , " may be considered as ...
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... Egypt whither we were going . Whenever a man fell into the water , the commander - in - chief had no rest till he was saved . He instantly ordered the ship to lay to , showed the most lively uneasiness till the unfortunate was recovered ...
... Egypt whither we were going . Whenever a man fell into the water , the commander - in - chief had no rest till he was saved . He instantly ordered the ship to lay to , showed the most lively uneasiness till the unfortunate was recovered ...
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Page vi - Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals. All the visions of antiquity became common places in his contemplation; kings were his people — nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard!
Page iv - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy...
Page iv - Revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course a stranger by birth and a scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves, and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive...
Page vi - Skepticism bowed to the prodigies of his performance; romance assumed the air of history; nor was there aught too incredible for belief, or too fanciful for expectation, when the world saw a subaltern of Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals.
Page iv - ... that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell.
Page 448 - A short time afterwards, referring to the same subject, he exclaimed, " In that extraordinary campaign, thrice, in less than a week's space, I saw the certain triumph of France and the determination of her fate slip through my fingers. Had it not been for the desertion of a traitor, I should have annihilated the enemy at the outset of the campaign.
Page vi - His person partook the character of his mind — if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field. Nature had no obstacles that he did not surmount ; space no opposition that he did not spurn : and whether amid Alpine rocks, Arabian sands, or polar snows, he seemed proof against peril, and empowered with ubiquity!
Page 416 - ... in our affairs. Who would pretend to be master over us ? Who would have the power ? Resume those eagles which you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylau, at Wagram, at Friedland, at Tudela, at Eckmuhl, at Essling, at Smolensk, at the Moskwa, at Lutzen, at Wurtchen, at Montmirail.
Page 36 - On seeing the sword, he burst into tears. I felt so much affected by his conduct, that I noticed and praised him much. A few days afterwards his mother came to return me a visit of thanks. I was much struck with her appearance, and still more with her ftfrit. The first impression was daily strengthened, and marriage was not long in following.
Page 480 - ... together so that I might pass over. They answered that it was possible, but hazardous. I desired them to set about it instantly. In the course of a few hours they succeeded in effecting what the others had pronounced to be impossible, and I crossed before the evening was over. I ordered those who had worked at it to receive a sum of money each, a suit of clothes, and their liberty. Marchand was with me at the time.