The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Volume 3Illustrated London library, 1852 - France "William Hazlitt (10 April 1778? 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as an art critic, drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell."--Wikipedia |
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Page 119 - French princesses have perished miserably, whenever they could be immolated with impunity to the atrocious spirit of vengeance. My opinion is that nothing should be hurried forward, and that we should take counsel of events as they occur. It will be necessary to strengthen the bodies of troops which are to be stationed on the frontiers of Portugal, and wait.
Page 295 - I was angry at this, and issued very strict orders on the subject to the commandants of regiments and others. The next day it had increased, but still not so as to give serious alarm. However, afraid that it might gain upon us, I went out on horseback, and gave every direction to extinguish it. The next morning a violent wind arose, and the fire spread with the greatest rapidity. Some hundred miscreants, hired for that purpose, dispersed themselves in different parts of the town, and with matches...
Page 187 - Soon after he said that his designs were no longer to kill me, but that he would murder the King of Prussia for having ill-treated the Saxons and Saxony. On my return from Elba I was to be present at the opening of the Legislative Body, which was to be done with great state and ceremony. When I went to open the chamber this same man, who had got in, fell down by some accident, and a parcel, containing some chemical preparation, exploded in his pocket, and wounded him severely. It never has been clearly...
Page 121 - Dupont to make is too sudden, on account of the event of the 19th of March. They must be altered ; you will make new arrangements : you will receive instructions from my Minister for Foreign Affairs. " I enjoin the strictest maintenance of discipline : the slightest faults must not go unpunished. The inhabitants must be treated with the greatest attention. Above all, churches and convents must be respected. " The army must avoid all misunderstanding with the bodies and detachments of the Spanish...
Page 178 - Gun-boats, prepared for the purpose, silenced some of the Austrian batteries ; others were avoided, by passing the river out of reach of their fire, which the French were enabled to do by the new and additional bridges they had secretly prepared. At day-light on the next morning, the Archduke...
Page 295 - They also brought before us numbers of the incendiaries with their matches, as amidst such a popolazzo we never could have discovered them ourselves. I caused about two hundred of these wretches to be shot. Had it not been for this fatal fire, I...
Page 3 - I may have written declared myself to be a Republican ; nor should I think it worth while to be a martyr and a confessor to any form or mode of government. But what I have staked health and wealth, name and fame upon, and am ready to do so again and to the last gasp, is this, that there is a power in the people to change its government and its governors.
Page 193 - This it is which induces me to sacrifice the sweetest affections of my heart, to attend to nothing but the good of the state, and to wish the dissolution of my marriage. Arrived at the age of forty years, I may indulge the hope of living long enough to educate, in my...
Page 46 - ... own escort, he enjoined him not to quit these wounded till they were all in the hospital. These brave men loaded him with blessings, which found the way to his heart much better than all the flatteries of courtiers.
Page 11 - It was a truly magnificent sight. The procession was opened by the already numerous body of courtiers ; next came the Marshals of the Empire wearing their honours ; then the dignitaries and high officers of the Crown ; and lastly, the Emperor in a dress of state. At the moment of his entering the cathedral there was a simultaneous shout of ' Vive FEmpereurl' "The procession passed along the middle of the nave, and arrived at the choir facing the high altar.