Napoleon, the Last PhaseArthur L. Humphreys, 1900 - 261 pagine |
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Pagina 66 - I heard several of them conversing together about him this morning ; when one of them observed, ' Well, they may abuse that man as much as they please ; but if the people of England knew him as well as we do, they would not hurt a hair of his head ;
Pagina 221 - If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor . of the East ; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find you in our way.
Pagina 256 - His neighbors' landmarks become playthings to him; he cannot leave them alone; he manipulates them for the mere love of moving them. His island enemy is on his nerves; he sees her everywhere; he strikes at her blindly and wildly. And so he produces universal unrest, universal hostility, the universal sense of his Incompatibility with all established society. But he pursues his path as if possessed, as If driven by the Inward sting of some burning devil. He has ceased to be sane. The intellect and...
Pagina 278 - His person I was very desirous of seeing, and I felt disappointed. His figure is very bad; he is short with a large head, his hands and legs small, and his body so corpulent as to project very considerably.
Pagina 165 - A chequered red madras upon his head, and his shirt collar open without a cravat. His air was melancholy and troubled. Before him stood a little round table, with some books, at the foot of which lay, in confusion .upon the carpet, a heap of those which he had already perused...
Pagina 281 - Without reference to the usual sobering effect of vicinity and contact in dissipating the gilded halos with which a sanguine fancy invests distant and remarkable objects, the interview with Napoleon had dissolved a glory, par excellence. A fascinating prestige, which we had cherished all our lives, then vanished like gossamer in the sun. The great Emperor Napoleon, the hero of modern times, had merged in an unsightly and obese individual ; and we looked in vain for that overwhelming power of eye...
Pagina 87 - To this Sir George Cockburn answered — " NORTHOMBERLAND, ST. HELENA ROADS, ' November, 6th, 1815. " SIR — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and note of yesterday's date, by which you oblige me officially to explain to you that I have no cognizance of any Emperor being actually upon this island or of any person possessing such dignity having (as stated by you) come hither with me in the Northumberland.
Pagina 278 - His general appearance was that of a man rather older than he then was. His manners were extremely pleasing and affable : he joined in every conversation, related numerous anecdotes, and endeavoured, in every way, to promote good humour : he even admitted his attendants to great familiarity ; and I saw one or two instances of their contradicting him in the most direct terms, though they generally treated him with much respect. He possessed, to a wonderful degree, a facility in making a favourable...
Pagina 150 - The Imperial Courts of Austria and of Russia, and the Royal Court of Prussia, are to appoint Commissioners to proceed to and abide at the place which the Government of his Britannic Majesty shall have assigned for the residence of Napoleon Buonaparte, and who, without being responsible for his custody, will assure themselves of his presence.
Pagina 16 - Strasburg he wrote a letter to me in which he offered to discover everything if pardon were granted to him ; said that his family had lost their claims for a long time ; and concluded by offering his services to me. This letter was delivered to Talleyrand, who concealed it until after his execution. Had the Comte d'Artois been in his place he would have suffered the same fate ; and were I now placed under similar circumstances I would act in a similar manner. As the police...