Napoleon, a Biographical Study

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1907 - Broj stranica: 391
 

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Stranica 216 - Society," he once remarked to Roederer, to whom we owe our knowledge of so many of his master's familiar sayings, " cannot exist without inequality of material wealth, and this inequality cannot exist without religion.
Stranica 346 - XIV.,) to bury himself under the ruins of his throne rather than accept conditions unworthy of a king. He had a mind too lofty to descend lower than his fortunes had sunk him ; he knew well that courage may strengthen a crown, but infamy never.
Stranica 50 - Plus notre esprit est fort, plus il faut qu'il agisse. II meurt dans le repos, il vit dans l'ecercise».
Stranica 183 - You violated it on the 18th of Fructidor, you violated it on the 22nd of Floreal and on the 3<Dth of Prairial ! No one regards it any longer. I will speak out...
Stranica 181 - We are resolved to have a Republic ; we are resolved to have it founded on true liberty and a representative system. I swear it in my own name, and in that of my companions in arms.
Stranica 10 - ... sort of thing for him either. No doubt, then, he would like to enter the Infantry. Very good: I understand. He wants to do nothing all day but parade the town. Besides, what is a smart young infantry officer up to, three quarters of his time, except misconducting himself? And that is something that neither my dear father, nor you, nor my mother, nor my dear uncle the Archdeacon, can ever allow, especially as he has already shown some signs of extravagance and frivolity. We shall therefore make...
Stranica 191 - State, the ministers, the ambassadors and other foreign agents in chief, the officers of the army and navy, the members of the local administrations and the commissioners of the Government at the courts.
Stranica 134 - November, before the arrival of the Emperor's envoy, he made his entry into Rastatt in a carriage drawn by eight horses, and was surrounded, courted by all the prominent men there, as if he were Destiny itself. As soon as the Emperor's envoys arrived, with Cobenzl again at their head, a settlement was arrived at on the 1st of December.
Stranica 72 - ... we should have attained this result without shocks and convulsions because it would have proceeded from the exercise of power ; we are now trying to reach this goal through a revolution, and this revolution will give birth to many others.
Stranica 24 - ... expressions of sentiment, she did not expect them. "Now hear this" she said at last, brightening. "It is about Louis, and a great relief," she added, turning to the invalid; "for you know how I hesitated about letting him go. " 'He' — Louis, he means — 'is getting on capitally with his work and is learning to write French; I myself am helping him with mathematics and geography; he is reading history and is altogether becoming a great fellow. " 'All the ladies here are losing their hearts...

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