 | William Henry Ireland - France - 1828 - 576 pages
...their country and myself. It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, display all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity.* " Mr. President, and gentlemen deputies of the chamber of peers, I thank you for the sentiments you... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - France - 1841 - 668 pages
...the energy of a great people. It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, unfold all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity. The constitution is our rallying point; it should be our pole-star in these stormy times. Every public... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - France - 1861 - 820 pages
...devotedness to the country and to me. "It is iu times of danger that great nations, like great men, display the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity." When Napoleon had heard the address of the Chamber of Representatives he said : " It gives me pleasure... | |
 | William Hazlitt - France - 1847 - 492 pages
...attachment to the country and to me. It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men unfold all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity. I will set out to-night and proceed to join the army. The movements of the different corps of our enemies... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 294 pages
...différence entr'eux. 1 La France à Aboukir, ft perdu d'un seul coup sa marine, _"!! armée, et sa colonie. 9. Man is too powerless to ensure the future, the...Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live. 13. Chance plays a considerable part in our various resolutions. 14, Man is ever the same. 9. Les hommes... | |
 | Antoine Henri baron de Jomini - Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815 - 1862 - 242 pages
...country and her chief. It is in trying times that great nations, like great individuals, show forth all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity." This posterity will acknowledge, while perusing these words, that the emperor neglected nothing in... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - Table-talk - 1868 - 230 pages
...glory. It is never wise to inflame hatred, nor to render one's self odious. A true man hates no one. It is in times of difficulty that great men and great nations display all the energy of their character, and become an object of admiration to posterity. We must... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1885 - 610 pages
...attachment to the country and to me. It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, unfold all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity. I will set out to-night and proceed to join the army. The movements of the different corps of our enemies... | |
 | Antoine Henri baron de Jomini - 1897 - 654 pages
...to the country and its chief. It is in difficult times that great nations, like great men, display all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity." Posterity will agree, in reading this discourse, that I, at least, foresaw all the dangers to which... | |
 | 1894 - 762 pages
...dignified answers he told them : " It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, unfold all the energy of their character and become objects of admiration to posterity ! " He warned them not to imitate the example of the leaders of the Byzantine empire, who had made... | |
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Chambers proofs of their attachment to the country and to me. It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, unfold all the energy of their character, and become objects of admiration to posterity. 