Napoleon, and the French People Under His EmpireTipper & Richards, 1806 - 421 страници |
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... hundred thousand men . Bonaparte reigns only because the freedom of the press is annihilated . Eight and forty hours Bonaparte and the French People under his Consulate . Translated from the German . - Second edition , 1804 : Tipper and ...
... hundred thousand men . Bonaparte reigns only because the freedom of the press is annihilated . Eight and forty hours Bonaparte and the French People under his Consulate . Translated from the German . - Second edition , 1804 : Tipper and ...
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... hundred years . No such account has reached us , still less is it known in France . * But There has since appeared an history of these infamous tran- sactions under the title of Raccolta chronologico - ragionato , di do- cumenti inediti ...
... hundred years . No such account has reached us , still less is it known in France . * But There has since appeared an history of these infamous tran- sactions under the title of Raccolta chronologico - ragionato , di do- cumenti inediti ...
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... hundred and six vessels and eight hundred pieces of cannon . With a militia ( cernidi ) of fifty thousand men , zealous in their cause , and eleven thousand Slavones , who might easily have been encreased in number ; eager for battle ...
... hundred and six vessels and eight hundred pieces of cannon . With a militia ( cernidi ) of fifty thousand men , zealous in their cause , and eleven thousand Slavones , who might easily have been encreased in number ; eager for battle ...
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... hundreds and thousands of wretched travellers , who had lost themselves upon these dreary heighths ; not even this solitary abode of active piety and benevolence , was spared by their destructive hands ; they demolished it and set it on ...
... hundreds and thousands of wretched travellers , who had lost themselves upon these dreary heighths ; not even this solitary abode of active piety and benevolence , was spared by their destructive hands ; they demolished it and set it on ...
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... hundred sacks of corn for these countries . " At the very time that the people were imploring the aid of the general in chief of the Helvetic government , plundered by the armies , and exhausted by the immense requisitions that I had ...
... hundred sacks of corn for these countries . " At the very time that the people were imploring the aid of the general in chief of the Helvetic government , plundered by the armies , and exhausted by the immense requisitions that I had ...
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Страница 277 - Buonaparte of high treason, in the full assembly, against the honour of France, her children, and humanity ; that he entered into the full details of the poisoning of the sick, and the massacre of the garrison ; aggravating these crimes by charging...
Страница 272 - Jaffa by assault, many of the garrison were put to the sword ; but the greater part flying into the mosques, and imploring mercy from their pursuers, were granted their lives; and let it be well. remembered...
Страница 277 - ... soldiers, who had suffered so much for their country, perished thus miserably by the order of its idol. Is there a Frenchman whose blood does not chill with horror at the recital of such a fact. Surely the manes of these murdered unoffending people must be now hovering round the seat of government...
Страница 273 - Buonaparte, who had expressed much resentment at the compassion manifested by his troops, and determined to relieve himself from the maintenance and care of three thousand eight hundred prisoners, ordered these to be marched to a rising ground near Jaffa ; where a division of French infantry formed against them.
Страница 168 - He is a stranger, a foreigner, and an usurper ; he unites in his own person every thing that a pure Republican must detest ; every thing that an enraged jacobin has abjured ; every thing that a sincere and faithful Royalist must feel as an insult. If he is opposed at any time in his career, what is his appeal ? He appeals to his fortune; in other words to his army and his sword. Placing, then, his whole reliance upon military support, can he afford to let his military renown pass away, to let his...
Страница 275 - The next circumstance is of a nature which requires indeed the most particular details to establish, since the idea can scarce be entertained that the commander of an army should order his...
Страница 274 - Bonaparte, who had been regarding the scene through a telescope, when he saw the smoke ascending, could not restrain his joy, but broke out into exclamations of approval ; indeed, he had just reason to dread the refusal of his troops thus to dishonour themselves.
Страница 280 - French ai'my penetrated, and she will at least hesitate to believe that the same armies should voluntarily ameliorate their conduct in a country more remote, where the atrocities they might commit would be less liable to publicity; and that this extraordinary change should be in favour of a people, whose principles and resistance might have excited the resentment of more generous invaders. I will not enter into an...
Страница x - Of whatever elements public spirit is composed, it is always and everywhere the chief defensive principle of a state. It is perfectly distinct from courage. Perhaps no nation, certainly no European nation, ever perished from an inferiority of courage. And undoubtedly no considerable nation was ever subdued, in which the public affections were sound and vigorous. It is public spirit which binds together the dispersed courage of individuals, and fastens it to the commonwealth. It is, therefore, as...
Страница 276 - ... reasons cannot be here inserted ; on his arrival he entered into a long conversation with him respecting the danger of contagion, concluding at last with the remark, that something must be done to remedy the evil, and that the destruction of the sick...