 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1878 - 312 pages
...-' word-painting." Mark the concrete form of expression in the following description of Napoleon : " Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge no superior, he commenced his course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1878 - 278 pages
...thrilling the soul. THE CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON. 23 THE CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON. rniLLire. Flung into life iu the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, Napoleon commenced his course, a stranger by birth and a scholar by charity.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...bold, independent, and decisive, — a will despotic in its dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...independent, and decisive, — a will despotic in its dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition, nnd h H ] O\ ډG +0 e { Yx ݴ4 8^ n _^/ ~ 1b L;...t b [ V p e z SX 4|t䰪 ق`Wx! ⛔j 6 ]N who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch,...most extraordinary perhaps, that, in the annals of the world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell. Flung into life in the midst of a Revolution that quietened... | |
 | John William Kirton - Elocution - 1880 - 284 pages
...A mind bold, independent and decisive ; a will despotic in its dictates ; an energy that distanced expedition and a conscience pliable to every touch...revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge no superior, he commenced his course, a stranger by birth and a scholar by charity.... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - Elocution - 1881 - 498 pages
...bold, independent, and decisive, — a will despotic in its dictates, — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch...revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledge no superior, he commenced his course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1881 - 402 pages
...originality. A mind bold, independent and decisive; a will despotic in its dictates ; an energy that distanced expedition and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest marked the outliue of this extraordinary character, the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...the contrasted characteristics being clearly rendered by opposing inflections of the voice : — " Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, Napoleon commenced his course a stranger by birth and a scholar by charity.... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...a will despotic in its dictates, an energy that distanced expo lii ion, and a conscience pliable,to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this...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.... | |
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A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps,... 
