Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, Volume 1Cadell, 1834 - France |
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Page 53 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page xiii - ... the church to the bishops, the state to the eunuchs, and the provinces to the barbarians. Europe is now divided into twelve powerful, though unequal kingdoms, three respectable commonwealths, and a variety of smaller, though independent states: the chances of royal and ministerial talents are multiplied, at least, with the number of its rulers; and a Julian, or Semiramis, may reign in the North, while Arcadius and Honorius again slumber on the thrones of the South.
Page 176 - ... permanent He thus took upon himself the responsibility for the quiet of the night We are loath to bring into question the worth, honour, and fidelity of La Fayette; and we can therefore only lament, that weariness should have so far overcome him at an important crisis, and that he should have trusted to others the execution of those precautions, which were most grossly neglected.
Page 5 - Nomen erat , nec fama ducis : sed nescia virtus Stare loco; solusque pudor, non vincere bello. Acer, et indomitus ; quo spes , quoque ira vocasset , Ferre manum , et nunquam temerando parcere ferro Successus urgere suos : instare favori Numinis : impellens quidquid sibi summa petenti Obstaret; gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.
Page 308 - A mighty breach is made: the rooms conceal'd Appear, and all the palace is reveal'd; The halls of audience, and of public state, And where the lonely queen in secret sate. Arm'd soldiers now by trembling maids are seen, With not a door, and scarce a space, between.
Page 311 - Let us follow that rabble,' said Bonaparte to me. We got before them, and went to walk in the gardens, on the terrace overlooking the water. From this station he beheld the disgraceful occurrences that ensued. I should fail in attempting to depict the surprise and indignation roused within him.
Page 287 - His features were not expressive of his thoughts, but it was not from dissimulation that he concealed them ; a mixture of resignation and dignity repressed in him every outward sign of hi* sentiment*.
Page xiii - ... by education, luxury, and despotic power. The deepest wounds were inflicted on the empire during the minorities of the sons and grandsons of Theodosius; and, after those incapable princes seemed to attain the age of manhood, they abandoned the church to the bishops, the state to the eunuchs, and the provinces to the barbarians. Europe is now divided into twelve powerful, though unequal kingdoms, three respectable commonwealths...
Page 355 - It may be hoped, and, for the honour of human nature, we are inclined to believe, there was a touch of insanity in this unnatural strain of ferocity; and the wild and squalid features of the wretch appear to have intimated a degree of alienation of mind.
Page 247 - Girondists were willing to employ, for the accomplishment of their purpose, those base and guilty tools which afterwards affected their own destruction. They were for using the revolutionary means of insurrection and violence, until the republic should be established, and no longer ; or, in the words of the satirist, " For letting Rapine loose, and Murther, To rage just so far, but no further ; And setting all the land on fire To burn t