 | Montagu Burrows - 1880 - 278 σελίδες
...Europe to touch her. She did nothing of the kind. Napoleon in his distress addressed the Prince Regent as " the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies." If the relegation of the fallen chief to St. Helena has been thought to weigh against the last of these... | |
 | sir John Robert L. Emilius Laurie (3rd bart.) - 1880 - 430 σελίδες
...from the English than from the Royalists, he gave himself up to those whom he flatteringly described 'as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of his enemies.' Secondly, no pledge of any kind was entered into by Captain Maitland as to the manner... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - 1891 - 596 σελίδες
...hospitality of the British people. 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. " Rochefort, July 13, 1815." " NAPOLEON. Conceived as it was between the country which refused him... | |
 | 1080 σελίδες
...people. I place myself under the protection of its laws which I claim from your Royal Highness as of the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies." Later on, Napoleon learned that this letter was not suffered to reach the Prince, but while still unconscious... | |
 | John Ashton - 1884 - 342 σελίδες
...hospitality of the British People. I place 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. NAPOLEON. Rochefort, I3thjuly, 1815. On the 1 5th, then, Napoleon and suite went on board the ' Bellerophon,'... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - 1884 - 592 σελίδες
...British people. I place myself beneath the protection of their laws, which protection I claim from your Royal Highness as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON." No notice was taken of this undignified appeal, made when escape was impossible. INSTRUCTIONS... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1885 - 610 σελίδες
...hospitality of the British people. I place myself under the protection of their laws, and I claim that from your Royal Highness as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. (Signed) NAPOLEON. About four PM Las Cases and Savary returned to the Bellerophon, where they had a... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - 1886 - 380 σελίδες
...the hearth of the British people. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.' It was perhaps the only course open to him. In France his life could scarcely have been spared, and... | |
 | Claude-François baron de Méneval - 1894 - 570 σελίδες
...myself under the protection of its laws which I ask for from Your Royal Highness, as the protection of the most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies." Thiers remarks on this letter that, at any other time, it would certainly have touched English honour.... | |
 | Claude-François baron de Méneval - 1894 - 584 σελίδες
...myself under the protection of its laws which I ask for from Your Royal Highness, as the protection of the most powerful, the most constant and the most generous of my enemies." Thiers remarks on this letter that, at any other time, it would certainly have touched English honour.... | |
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... Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People. 
