English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.Chatto & Windus, 1884 - 283 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 198 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Σελίδα 198 - But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear the ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of!
Σελίδα 8 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Σελίδα 158 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Σελίδα 103 - How can the two most enlightened nations of Europe, powerful and strong beyond what their safety and independence require, sacrifice to ideas of vain greatness the benefits of commerce, internal prosperity, and the happiness of families?
Σελίδα 103 - England, abusing their strength, may long defer the period of its utter exhaustion ; but I will venture to say, that the fate of all civilised nations is concerned in the termination of a war, the flames of which are raging throughout the whole world, I have the honour to be, &c., &c.
Σελίδα 157 - My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country ; you have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
Σελίδα 100 - my presentiment is verified: the fools have lost Italy All the fruits of our victories are gone ! I must leave Egypt !" He sent for Berthier, to whom he communicated the news, adding that things were going on very badly in France — that he wished to return home — that he (Berthier) should go along with him, and that, for the present, only he, Gantheaume, and I were in the secret. He recommended...
Σελίδα 90 - Bonaparte was not to be diverted from his object by moral considerations, he persevered, and found an apothecary, who (dreading the weight of power, but who since has made an atonement to his mind by unequivocally confessing the fact) consented to become his agent, and to administer poison to the sick. OPIUM AT NIGHT WAS DISTRIBUTED IN GRATIFYING...
Σελίδα 89 - Buonaparte finding that his hospitals at Jaffa were crowded with sick, sent for a physician, whose name should be inscribed in letters of gold, but which, from weighty reasons, cannot be here inserted. On his arrival, he entered into a long conversation with him respecting the danger of contagion ; concluding at last with the remark, that something must be done to remedy the evil, and that the destruction of the sick...