History of the consulate and the empire of France under Napoleon, tr. by D.F. Campbell, Volumes 3-4 |
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Page 148 - His Majesty thinks it necessary to acquaint the House of Commons that, as very considerable military preparations are carrying on in the ports of France and Holland, he has judged it expedient to adopt additional measures of precaution for the security of his dominions...
Page 241 - From the heights of Ambleteuse I have seen this day the coast of England, as one sees the heights of Calvary from the Tuileries. We could distinguish the houses and the bustle. It is a ditch that shall be leaped when one is daring enough to try.
Page 279 - Moreau the weakness and errors to which he is urged by stupid jealousy, but I will pitilessly shoot the very first of these princes who shall fall into my hands ; I will teach them with what sort of a man they have to deal...
Page 148 - Holland, he has judged it expedient to adopt additional measures of precaution for the security of his dominions ; though the preparations to which his Majesty refers are avowedly directed to colonial service, yet, as discussions of great importance are...
Page 147 - The government guarantees to the nation the peace of the continent, and it is permitted to entertain a hope of the continuance of maritime peace. This peace is the» want as well as the desire of all nations.
Page 134 - ... attached to the cause of England, we have felt an involuntary movement of sympathy with that generous outburst of liberty, and we have no desire to conceal it. No doubt France is great, much greater than a good Englishman ought to wish, but that ought not to be a motive for violating solemn treaties. But because France now appears too great to us - greater than we thought her at first - to break a solemn engagement, to retain Malta, for instance, would be an unworthy breach of faith, which would...
Page 145 - I am solicitous to risk this power, this renown, in a desperate struggle? If I have a war with Austria. I shall contrive to find the way to Vienna. If I have a war with you, I will take from you every ally upon the Continent. You will blockade us; but I will blockade you in my turn.
Page 311 - A statue of Peace, holding in one hand the laurel of victory, and in the other this decree of the senate, shall attest to posterity the gratitude of the nation. 3. The senate will convey to the first consul the expression of the confidence, love, and admiration of the French people.
Page 24 - ... different mission ; she was to protect the weak — to curb the strong — to oblige France and England to confine themselves within the limits of justice — to force both -of them to respect, in their struggle, the interests of nations. " Happy pretensions," remarks the French historian Thiers, " noble ideas, if they had been serious; if they had not resembled those liberal impulses of the French noblesse, brought up in the school of Voltaire and Rousseau, talking of humanity and liberty, till...
Page 130 - I have been actuated by a sincere disposition for the maintenance of peace ; it is nevertheless impossible for me to lose sight of that established and wise system of policy, by which the interests of other States .are connected with our own ; and I cannot, therefore, be indifferent to any material change in their relative condition and strength.