The Apophthegms of Napoleon: Being a Lecture Delivered at the Theatre of the Philosophical Institution, Bristol, February 20, 1854, by Joseph LeechHamilton, Adams, & Company, 1854 - 61 σελίδες |
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... examples ; and for some of those added since the Lecture was originally spoken , he is indebted to the kindness of M. H. V. de Candole , of this City , whose opportunities and reading enabled him to supply those not within reach of the ...
... examples ; and for some of those added since the Lecture was originally spoken , he is indebted to the kindness of M. H. V. de Candole , of this City , whose opportunities and reading enabled him to supply those not within reach of the ...
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... example of the Lower Empire , which rendered itself the scoff of posterity , by engaging in abstract discussions at the moment when the battering - ram was at the gates of the city ; " and with a classical reference equally apposite he ...
... example of the Lower Empire , which rendered itself the scoff of posterity , by engaging in abstract discussions at the moment when the battering - ram was at the gates of the city ; " and with a classical reference equally apposite he ...
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... examples of the force and felicity of what I may call his classical apophthegms . There was no affectation at least in his love of the sublime and the beautiful in poetry or prose , and his intellectual tastes were as fine as his ...
... examples of the force and felicity of what I may call his classical apophthegms . There was no affectation at least in his love of the sublime and the beautiful in poetry or prose , and his intellectual tastes were as fine as his ...
Σελίδα 30
... example at the close of the last - quoted address , were employed by him on such great and critical occasions , that we can easily judge how powerful their operation on the nature and idiosyncracy of a French soldier he conceived them ...
... example at the close of the last - quoted address , were employed by him on such great and critical occasions , that we can easily judge how powerful their operation on the nature and idiosyncracy of a French soldier he conceived them ...
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... examples of condensed shrewd- ness and sententious force . " Talleyrand is right : - they walk with speed who walk alone , ' " was his obser- vation after that wily Minister had councilled him as First Consul to act by himself . It was ...
... examples of condensed shrewd- ness and sententious force . " Talleyrand is right : - they walk with speed who walk alone , ' " was his obser- vation after that wily Minister had councilled him as First Consul to act by himself . It was ...
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Σελίδα 55 - What prepossession, what blindness must it be, to compare the son of Sophroniscus to the Son of Mary ! What an infinite disproportion there is between them. Socrates, dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a vain sophist.
Σελίδα 51 - But whilst they acknowledged the general advantages of religion, they were convinced that the various modes of worship contributed alike to the same salutary purposes; and that, in every country, the form of superstition, which had received the sanction of time and experience, was the best adapted to the climate and its inhabitants.44 Gibbon is beginning to use the word 'superstition...
Σελίδα 13 - I put myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Σελίδα 29 - We celebrate the first day of the year VII. of the republic. " Five years ago the independence of the French people was threatened: but you took Toulon; this was an omen of the destruction of your enemies.
Σελίδα 11 - Let us bear our triumphal eagles to the pillars of Hercules, there also we have injuries to avenge ! Soldiers ! you have surpassed the renown of modern armies, but have you yet equalled the glory of those Romans who, in one and the same campaign, were victorious upon the Rhine and the Euphrates, in Illyria and upon the Tagus ! A long peace, a lasting prosperity, shall be the reward of your labours.
Σελίδα 45 - Desaix general-in-chief of that country. I will arrive at Constantinople with armed masses ; overturn the empire of the Turks, and establish a new one in the East, which will fix my place with posterity ; and perhaps I may return to Paris by Adrianople and Vienna, after having annihilated the house of Austria.
Σελίδα 29 - Mantua, and you gained the famous victory of St. George. •• Last year you were at the sources of the Drave and the Isonzo, on your return from Germany.
Σελίδα 60 - Almighty appeared to have intrusted to him the destinies of the globe, and he used them to destroy. He shrouded the sun with the clouds of battle, and unveiled the night with his fires. His march reversed the course of nature...
Σελίδα 55 - How great the command over his passions ! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness and without ostentation? When Plato described his imaginary good man...
Σελίδα 30 - Chief : his existence is only made up of yours ; his rights are only those of the people and yours ; his interest, his honour, his glory, are no other than your interest, your honour, andyour glory. Victory shall march at a charging step ; the Eagle, with the national colours, shall fly from steeple to steeple, till it reaches the towers of Notre Dame...