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... positions and propensities of two or three statesmen - nay , even of one preponderating poli- tician , to a degree so unusual , that the adoption of the " shadow fighting , " declared by a great moral poet to be no less inefficacious ...
... positions and propensities of two or three statesmen - nay , even of one preponderating poli- tician , to a degree so unusual , that the adoption of the " shadow fighting , " declared by a great moral poet to be no less inefficacious ...
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... position for height of stature . Had Napoleon been haughty , morose , reserved , important , and pompous , it would have been easy to recognize and appreciate those kingly charac- teristics ; and to have foreseen and provided against an ...
... position for height of stature . Had Napoleon been haughty , morose , reserved , important , and pompous , it would have been easy to recognize and appreciate those kingly charac- teristics ; and to have foreseen and provided against an ...
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... position of danger , is perhaps the most undaunted of his species ; but the amuse- ments of a town besieged indicate to his eyes an indifference to danger more than can be expected or even justified in man , and an habitual compound of ...
... position of danger , is perhaps the most undaunted of his species ; but the amuse- ments of a town besieged indicate to his eyes an indifference to danger more than can be expected or even justified in man , and an habitual compound of ...
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... position of the king . The noble lord in the blue ribbon gave him a hearing , but being told of the increasing discontent of the kingdom , the imprudence of the royal family , the officious treachery of the ministers , and the imminent ...
... position of the king . The noble lord in the blue ribbon gave him a hearing , but being told of the increasing discontent of the kingdom , the imprudence of the royal family , the officious treachery of the ministers , and the imminent ...
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... position to recommence opera- tions against France . In England , Marshal Soult is supposed to have been deeply concerned , and to have assisted materially in the plot . I learn here , that , on the contrary , that officer had some ...
... position to recommence opera- tions against France . In England , Marshal Soult is supposed to have been deeply concerned , and to have assisted materially in the plot . I learn here , that , on the contrary , that officer had some ...
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abdication allies amongst appeared armées arms army assembly autres avait bataillons Blacas Bourbons c'est capital Carnot cause chamber of representatives chambre des pairs Champ citoyens command commission commission of government comte constitution contre corps Count court d'une declaration département droits Duke of Angoulême Duke of Otranto Duke of Wellington dynasty Elba Emperor enemies England English être fait favour Fouché Français France French friends garde nationale général grand guerre hommes honour imperial intérêts jour king l'armée l'Empereur l'empire l'ennemi Labédoyère letter liberty lois Lord Castlereagh Lord Wellington Louis Louis XVIII March Marshal ment ministers monarch Moniteur Mont-Saint-Jean moyens Napoleon national guard nobles nouvelle ont été Otranto paix Paris party patrie patriots peers peuple peut present prince puissances qu'elle qu'il regiments reign royal royalists sera seront seul Signé soldats soldiers sous sovereign throne tion tout traité troops Tuilleries Vive Wellington wish