Napoleon, a Biographical StudyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1907 - Broj stranica: 391 |
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affairs Ajaccio Alexander alliance allies already arms army arrived attack August Austria Barras battle Bonaparte brother brought Brumaire Church close coast command conqueror Constitution Consul Continent corps Corsica Court crown Czar Danube decisive declared decree defeated Directory Egypt Elba Emperor Empire enemy enemy's England English envoy Europe fate favour feeling fleet force France Frederick William freedom French French Empire friends frontier gave German German Empire give Government hand hope idea island Italy Jacobins Joseph King land March Murat Naples Napo Napoleon NAPOLEON BONAPARTE nation negotiations October officers once opponents organisation Paoli Paris party peace position possession Prince provinces Prussia Republic retreat Revolution Rhine ruler Russian secure sent side Sieyès Spain stood struggle Talleyrand territory thought Tilsit tion took Toulon treaty Treaty of Tilsit troops Vendémiaire victory Vienna Vistula wished wrote YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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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.
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Stranica 50 - Plus notre esprit est fort, plus il faut qu'il agisse. II meurt dans le repos, il vit dans l'ecercise».
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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.
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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.
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