 | Barry Edward O'Meara - 1822 - 554 pages
...Talleyrand, "Talleyrand," said he, "k plus vil ties agioteurs, bos flatten*. CTest ten homiM corrmnpu, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wary and...as if they were one day to become his friends; and hie friends, as if they were to become his enemies. He is a man of talent, bint venal in every thing.... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - France - 1828 - 576 pages
...Talleyrand, "Talleyrand," said he, " te pita vil det agioteuri, batfiattcur. C'eit un homme corrompu, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wary and...enemies as if they were one day to become his friends , aud bis friends, as if they were to become his enemies. He is a man of talent, but venal in every... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 608 pages
...believe, on the whole so happy. One-half of the old precept he certainly adopted — he ' lived with his enemies as if they were one day to become his friends ;' but no one can suspect him of having practised the still more prudential, but less amiable, alternative.... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 502 pages
...was seen M. de Talleyrand,* who, erased from the * " Talleyrand," said Napoleon, " is a corrupt man, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wary and...Talleyrand treats his enemies as if they were one list of emigrants during the latter times of the Convention, had come to Paris with the desire of again... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - France - 1840 - 476 pages
...This example was imitated ; and circles of the * " Talleyrand," said Napoleon, " is a corrupt man, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wary and...friends; and his friends, as if they were to become hie enemies. He is a man of unquestionable talent, but venal in everything. Nothing could be done with... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - France - 1844 - 476 pages
...kéeping aloof between the Constitutional Circle and * " Talleyrand,"' said Napoleon, " is a corrupt man, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wary and...if they were to become his enemies. He is a man of unquestionable talent, but venal in everything. Nothing could be done with him but by means of bribery."... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - France - 1850 - 908 pages
...keeping aloof between the Constitutional Circle and * " Talleyrand," said Napoleon, " is a corrupt mart, who has betrayed all parties .and persons. Wary and...if they were to become his enemies, He is a man of unquestionable talent, but venal in everything, Nothing could be done with him but by means of bribery."-... | |
 | 1853 - 358 pages
...was asked hia opinion of Talleyrand, île replied— Talleyrand hae betrayed all parties and persona. Wary and circumspect — always a traitor — but...enemies as if they were one day to become his friends. Sel. Not a bad notion. Wei. He is a man of talent, but venal in every thing. Nel. Hear! Wei. Nothing... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French), John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Authors, American - 1856 - 416 pages
...of him, at St. Helena, " Talleyrand is a corrupt man, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wan' and circumspect, always a traitor, but always in conspiracy...become his friends, and his friends as if they were to bocome his enemies. He is a man of unquestionable talent, but venal in every thing. Nothing could be... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Historic buildings - 1874 - 544 pages
...house. One of them was Talleyrand, the evil genius of Napoleon, who said of him that he always treated his enemies as if they were one day to become his friends, and his friends as if they were one day to become his enemies. " A man of talent, but vena! in everything." The world has long expected... | |
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is a corrupt man, who has betrayed all parties and persons. Wary and circumspect; always a traitor, but always in conspiracy with fortune ; Talleyrand treats his enemies as if they were one day to become his friends ; and his friends, as if they were... 
