The Life of Napoleon I: Including New Materials from the British Official Records, Τόμοι 1-2Macmillan, 1901 |
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... Masséna , who won the first of his laurels in the country of his birth . He was of humble parentage ; yet his erect bearing , proud animated glance , curt pene- trating speech , and keen repartees , proclaimed a nature at once active ...
... Masséna , who won the first of his laurels in the country of his birth . He was of humble parentage ; yet his erect bearing , proud animated glance , curt pene- trating speech , and keen repartees , proclaimed a nature at once active ...
Σελίδα 74
... Masséna , " vol . ii . , p . 13 , credits the French with only 37,775 men present with the colours , the Austrians with 32,000 , and the Sardinians with 20,000 . All these figures omit the troops in garrison or guarding communications ...
... Masséna , " vol . ii . , p . 13 , credits the French with only 37,775 men present with the colours , the Austrians with 32,000 , and the Sardinians with 20,000 . All these figures omit the troops in garrison or guarding communications ...
Σελίδα 75
... Masséna his energy and his tren- chant orders extorted admiration : and the tall swaggering Augereau shrank beneath the intellectual superiority of his gaze . Moreover , at the beginning of April the French re- ceived reinforcements ...
... Masséna his energy and his tren- chant orders extorted admiration : and the tall swaggering Augereau shrank beneath the intellectual superiority of his gaze . Moreover , at the beginning of April the French re- ceived reinforcements ...
Σελίδα 77
... Masséna pressed round their right wing , they gave way and beat a speedy retreat to save them- selves from entire capture . Bonaparte took no active share in the battle he was , very properly , intent on the wider problem of severing ...
... Masséna pressed round their right wing , they gave way and beat a speedy retreat to save them- selves from entire capture . Bonaparte took no active share in the battle he was , very properly , intent on the wider problem of severing ...
Σελίδα 78
... Masséna , whom Bonaparte again intrusted with the movement on the enemy's flank and rear . A strange event followed . The victors , while pillaging the country for the supplies which Bonaparte's sharpest orders failed to draw from the ...
... Masséna , whom Bonaparte again intrusted with the movement on the enemy's flank and rear . A strange event followed . The victors , while pillaging the country for the supplies which Bonaparte's sharpest orders failed to draw from the ...
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Σελίδα 24 - In order, then, that the social pact may not be a vain formulary, it tacitly includes this engagement, which can alone give force to the others, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be constrained to do so by the whole body; which means nothing else than that he shall be forced to be free...
Σελίδα 54 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Σελίδα 387 - Never quit my son ; and keep in mind that I would rather see him in the Seine than in the hands of the enemies of France!
Σελίδα 165 - The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!
Σελίδα 396 - ... The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the only obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, even that of life, •which he is not ready to make for the interests of France.
Σελίδα 407 - Soldiers," said the well-known voice, "if there is one among you who wishes to kill his Emperor, he can do so. Here I am.
Σελίδα 108 - Fortune is a woman; and the more she does for me, the more I will require of her." Suggestive words, which explain at once the splendour of his rise and the rapidity of his fall. During the few weeks of comparative inaction which ensued, the affairs of Italy claimed his attention. The prospect of an Austrian reconquest had caused no less concern to the friends of liberty in the peninsula than joy to the reactionary coteries of the old sovereigns.
Σελίδα 344 - Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season. I renounce Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole colony, without any reservation.
Σελίδα 421 - Paris of the 10th, on which day he was still there ; and I judge from his speech to the Legislature that his departure was not likely to be immediate. I think we are now too strong for him here.