The History of Napoleon Buonaparte, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1837 - 618 pages |
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... person possessed of such genius and such accom- plishments , of rendering himself eminently agree- able wherever it suited his purpose or inclination to be so . Feb. 27 , 1785. ] It was in this year that his father died of a cancer in ...
... person possessed of such genius and such accom- plishments , of rendering himself eminently agree- able wherever it suited his purpose or inclination to be so . Feb. 27 , 1785. ] It was in this year that his father died of a cancer in ...
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... persons holding no military character or rank , but acting as honourable spies for the government at Paris . The interference of these personages on this , as on many other occasions , was productive of delays , blunders , and ...
... persons holding no military character or rank , but acting as honourable spies for the government at Paris . The interference of these personages on this , as on many other occasions , was productive of delays , blunders , and ...
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... persons of con- dition , who had taken part against them , had escaped ; and their rage was to be contented with meaner victims . A day or two having been suffered to pass in quiet , a proclamation , apparently friendly , ex- horted the ...
... persons of con- dition , who had taken part against them , had escaped ; and their rage was to be contented with meaner victims . A day or two having been suffered to pass in quiet , a proclamation , apparently friendly , ex- horted the ...
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... persons , for his colleagues ; and the first director took care to reward the hand to which he owed his elevation . Within five days from the day of the Sec- tions , Buonaparte was named second in com- mand of the army of the interior ...
... persons , for his colleagues ; and the first director took care to reward the hand to which he owed his elevation . Within five days from the day of the Sec- tions , Buonaparte was named second in com- mand of the army of the interior ...
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... person , conferred on him his honorary nickname of The Little Corporal . In the mean time , he had sent ge- neral Beaumont and the cavalry to attempt the pas- sage of the river by a distant ford ( which they had much difficulty in ...
... person , conferred on him his honorary nickname of The Little Corporal . In the mean time , he had sent ge- neral Beaumont and the cavalry to attempt the pas- sage of the river by a distant ford ( which they had much difficulty in ...
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The History of Napoleon Buonaparte: With Engravings on Steel and Wood, Volume 2 John Gibson Lockhart No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 218 - O miserable Chieftain ! where and when Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not ; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow : Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee ; air, earth, and skies ; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee ; thou hast great allies ; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 194 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 166 - Called by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your majesty.
Page 39 - I am come to lead you into the most fertile plains that the sun beholds. — Rich provinces, opulent towns, all shall be at your disposal. — Soldiers, with such a prospect before you, can you fail in courage and constancy ?" This was showing the deer to the hound when the leash is about to be slipped.
Page 230 - IT is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters, unwithstood." Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever.
Page 166 - VOL. n. 9 15 to contribute effectually, for the second time, to a general pacification, by a prompt step taken in confidence, and freed from those forms, which, however necessary to disguise the apprehensions of feeble states, only serve to discover in those that are powerful a mutual wish to deceive.
Page 48 - Beaulieu had removed too far back, in his anxiety to avoid the French battery, could come to their assistance. Beaumont pressing gallantly with his horse upon the flank, and Napoleon's infantry forming rapidly as they passed the bridge, and charging on the instant, the Austrian line became involved in inextricable confusion, broke up, and fled. The slaughter on their side was great ; on the French, there fell only 200 men. With such rapidity, and consequently with so little loss, did Buonaparte execute...
Page 44 - ... your exploits now equal those of the Armies of Holland and the Rhine. You were utterly destitute, and you have supplied all your wants. You have gained battles without cannon, passed rivers without bridges, performed forced marches without shoes; and bivouacked without strong liquors, and often without bread.
Page 166 - Is there no room for accommodation ? How can the two most enlightened nations of Europe, stronger and more powerful than is necessary for their safety and independence, sacrifice commercial advantages, internal prosperity, and domestic happiness, to vain ideas of grandeur? Whence...
Page 270 - It was with great difficulty that the two emperors rallied some fragments of their armies around them, and effected their retreat. Twenty thousand prisoners, forty pieces of artillery, and all the standards of the Imperial Guard of Russia, remained with the conqueror. Such was the battle of Austerlitz, or, as the French soldiery delighted to call it,