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... Napoleon . Unfortunately , the finances of the years 1857 , 1858 , and 1859 show marks of a temporary embarrassment . The diminution of revenue from various causes , together with very large undertak- ings in public works , to which ...
... Napoleon . Unfortunately , the finances of the years 1857 , 1858 , and 1859 show marks of a temporary embarrassment . The diminution of revenue from various causes , together with very large undertak- ings in public works , to which ...
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... Napoleon , is so vast , grand , and complicated , it contains such a variety of phenomena , and it suggests such a ... Napoleon have had upon the frame of European society , and upon its divisions , laws , and institutions . He should ...
... Napoleon , is so vast , grand , and complicated , it contains such a variety of phenomena , and it suggests such a ... Napoleon have had upon the frame of European society , and upon its divisions , laws , and institutions . He should ...
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... Napoleon ; for in the one he sees only an unintelligible chaos , and in the other the growth of his country's glory . He does not perceive that the strife which preceded the Empire was a contest between contending prin- ciples ; and he ...
... Napoleon ; for in the one he sees only an unintelligible chaos , and in the other the growth of his country's glory . He does not perceive that the strife which preceded the Empire was a contest between contending prin- ciples ; and he ...
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... Napoleon . It is characteristic of the author's political creed ; of his utter insensibility to moral considerations , when in- consistent with French aggrandisement ; of his pandering to the ruthless spirit of conquest , except when it ...
... Napoleon . It is characteristic of the author's political creed ; of his utter insensibility to moral considerations , when in- consistent with French aggrandisement ; of his pandering to the ruthless spirit of conquest , except when it ...
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... Napoleon , when First Consul , is the grand ideal for French statesmen , not be- cause it staunched the wounds of anarchy , nor because it recon- structed society , but because it gave France her " natural limits , and , without ...
... Napoleon , when First Consul , is the grand ideal for French statesmen , not be- cause it staunched the wounds of anarchy , nor because it recon- structed society , but because it gave France her " natural limits , and , without ...
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Seite 458 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Seite 458 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 480 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 360 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Seite 469 - Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood. Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe...
Seite 171 - But you're a naughty girl. Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge-box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing." " But I didn't mean," said Maggie; " I couldn't help it." "Yes, you could," said Tom, "if you'd minded what you were doing. And you're a naughty girl, and you sha'n't go fishing with me to-morrow.
Seite 174 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.
Seite 475 - Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather it is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more. "So you admire conceited people, do you?
Seite 369 - Hunt is a man of the most indisputedly superior worth ; a Man of Genius in a very strict sense of that word, and in all the senses which it bears or implies ; of brilliant varied gifts, of graceful fertility, of clearness, lovingness, truthfulness ; of childlike open character ; also of most pure and even exemplary private deportment ; a man who can be other than loved only by those who have not seen him, or seen him from a distance through a false medium.
Seite 65 - The great, the learned, the ambitious,. and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now and then from an old lady.