Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte and His TimesJ.B. Perry, 1855 - 504 pages |
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... appearance of victory his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny ruin itself only elevated him to the empire ! But ... appeared perfectly impossible , his plans per- fectly impracticable ; but , in his hands , sim- plicity marked their ...
... appearance of victory his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny ruin itself only elevated him to the empire ! But ... appeared perfectly impossible , his plans per- fectly impracticable ; but , in his hands , sim- plicity marked their ...
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... appeared in the street , but they followed him , repeating the rhymes , " Napoleone di mezza calzetta Fra l'amore a Giacominetta . " " Napoleon , with his stockings about his heels , making love to Giacominetta . " - LAS CASES . HIS ...
... appeared in the street , but they followed him , repeating the rhymes , " Napoleone di mezza calzetta Fra l'amore a Giacominetta . " " Napoleon , with his stockings about his heels , making love to Giacominetta . " - LAS CASES . HIS ...
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... appeared to him in a dream , and , putting a poniard in his hand , had called on him for vengeance . The effort appears to have been an abortive one since , beyond the bare mention of the piece , nothing more of it is recorded . This ...
... appeared to him in a dream , and , putting a poniard in his hand , had called on him for vengeance . The effort appears to have been an abortive one since , beyond the bare mention of the piece , nothing more of it is recorded . This ...
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... appearance of tombs . The air even seemed to smell of the execu tioner . To be brief , the descendant of St. Louis was led to death , through files of mournful automata , but lately his subjects . If any one be near you , my friend ...
... appearance of tombs . The air even seemed to smell of the execu tioner . To be brief , the descendant of St. Louis was led to death , through files of mournful automata , but lately his subjects . If any one be near you , my friend ...
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... the lamp on the mantelpiece , Denon could observe the darkening countenance of this king of terrors , who appeared to fumble with his right hand D2 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE . 35 which had been regarded as the most violent, and ...
... the lamp on the mantelpiece , Denon could observe the darkening countenance of this king of terrors , who appeared to fumble with his right hand D2 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE . 35 which had been regarded as the most violent, and ...
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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 446 - 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 478 - ... 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.