Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, Τόμος 8Cadell, 1835 |
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Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: With a Preliminary View of the French ..., Τόμος 8 Walter Scott Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1834 |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 202 - 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 371 - ... troops, and nothing could equal the shouts of the army, except the silence of the people ; this was in the strictest sense of the word, a military election. It was an act where the army deposed the civil government ; it was the march of a military chief over a conquered people.
Σελίδα 369 - Treaty, but is not to be understood as binding his Britannic Majesty to prosecute the war, with a view of imposing upon France any particular government.
Σελίδα 122 - ... from the town to support them. Napoleon showed, as he always did in extremity, the same heroic courage which he had exhibited at Lodi and Brienne. He drew his sword, threw himself among the broken cavalry, called on them to remember their former victories, and checked the enemy by an impetuous charge, in which he and his staff-officers fought hand to hand with their opponents, so that he was in personal danger from the lance of a Cossack, the thrust of which was averted by his aide-de-camp, Girardin.
Σελίδα 425 - The madmen! A moment of prosperity blinds them. The oppression and humiliation of the French people are beyond their power. If they enter France, they will there find their tomb. Soldiers! we have forced marches to make, battles to fight...
Σελίδα 367 - Buonaparte destroys the only legal title on which his existence depended ; and, by appearing again in France, with projects of confusion and disorder, he has deprived himself of the protection of the law, and has manifested to the universe that there can be neither peace nor truce with him. The powers consequently declare, That Napoleon...
Σελίδα 367 - The powers consequently declare, that Napoleon Buonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that, as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Σελίδα 169 - St. Martin, and entered the barrier of Paris about eleven o'clock, the Cossacks of the Guard forming the advance of the March. Already was the crowd so enormous, as well as the acclamations so great, that it was difficult to move forward ; but, before the monarchs reached the Porte St.
Σελίδα 361 - European nations the dissolute and ferocious habits of a predatory soldiery,—at length by one of those vicissitudes which bid defiance to the foresight of man, had been brought to a close, upon the whole happy beyond all reasonable expectation, with no violent shock to national independence, with some tolerable compromise between the opinions of the age and the reverence due to ancient institutions; with no too signal or mortifying triumph over the legitimate interests...
Σελίδα 368 - May, 1814, and the dispositions sanctioned by that treaty, and those which they have resolved on, or shall hereafter resolve on, to complete and to consolidate it, they will employ all their means, and will unite all their efforts, that the general peace, the object of the wishes of Europe, and the constant purpose of their labours, may not again...