Memoirs of Napoleon BonaparteScott, Webster & Geary, 1839 - 588 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 582 - Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Pagina 126 - ... perhaps Joseph a little, from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him too ; but why ? — because his character pleases me: he is stern and resolute, and I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
Pagina 546 - Napoleon Bonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Pagina 570 - Our ranks were further thinned by the numbers of men who carried off the wounded, part of whom never returned to the field. The number of Belgian and Hanoverian troops, many of whom were young levies, that crowded to the rear, was very considerable, besides the number of our own dismounted dragoons, together with a proportion of our infantry, some of whom, as will always be found in the best armies, were glad , to escape from the field. These thronged the road leading to Brussels, in a manner that...