 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,...  Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte and His Times - Page vi1855 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...contemplation. Kings were his people ; nations were his outposts ; and he disposed of courts, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or drawing room; with the mob or the levee; wearing the jacobin bonnet, or the iron crown; banishing a... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pages
...Kings were his people ; nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and camps, and churche-. and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or drawing room ; with the moi or the levee; wearing the jacobin bonnet, or the iron crown; banishing... | |
 | Leipzig (Germany), Battle of, 1813 - 1814 - 42 pages
...and Camps, and Churches, and Cabinets, as if they were ^he titukry dignitaries df the'ChessBoarcl! ' Amid all these changes, he stood immutable as adamant....in the field or the drawing-room; with the mob or levee; wearing the Jacobin Bonnet or the Iron Crown; banishing a firagarrza or espousing a Lorrain;... | |
 | John Hampdon - 1815 - 638 pages
...confirmed his destiny—ruin itself only elevated him to empire. of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chess board. Cradled in the camp, he was, to the last hour, the darling of his army. Of all his soldiers,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...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...the jacobin bonnet or the iron crown — banishing a Braganza or espousing a Hapsburgh — dictating peace on a raft to the Czar of Russia, or contemplating... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 pages
.../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...the jacobin bonnet or the iron crown — banishing a Braganza, or espousing a Hapsburgh — dictating peace on a raft to the czar of Russia, or contemplating... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1817 - 234 pages
.../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...the levee — wearing the jacobin bonnet or the iron crownbanishing a Braganza, or espousing a Hapsburgh — dictating peace on a raft to the czar of Russia,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1817 - 166 pages
...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 chessrboard ! Amid all these changes, he stood as immutable as adamant. It mattered little whether... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...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...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or the drawing-room—with the mob or the levee— wearing the jacobin bonnet or the iron crown— banishing... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Forensic orations - 1821 - 278 pages
...icople—nations were his outposts; and he disposed of rourts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and :abinets, as if they were the titular- dignitaries of the chess-board!...adamant. It mattered little whether in the field or the drawing room—with the mob or the levee—wearing the jacobin bonnet or the iron crown—banishing... | |
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