 The vast palace of kings ; the moving array before me ; the deep mass of flashing arms in the distance ; the crowd around, the apparatus of war and empire, all disappeared, and, in the first gaze of admiration, I saw nothing but Napoleon — the single...  The Substance of Some Letters - Page 35by John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1816Full view - About this book
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...rising in arms from the Tanais to the Thames. I know that I never should have beheld him withdelight in the days of his despotism, and that the principal...the palace of the legislative body, nor did I ever fee any man just like him. His face was of a deadly pale; his jaws overhung, but not so much as I had... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...their own sovereign was to be tried in his person, and the remembrance of the wonderful achievements by which he had given an opportunity to decide that...the palace of the Legislative Body, nor did I ever tee any man just like him. His face was of a deadly pale; Ins jaws overhung, but not so much as I had... | |
 | Francis John MacCunn - 1914 - 328 pages
...undaunted mortal before my eyes. Let me also say that the persuasion that the right of a great and powerful nation to choose their own sovereign was to be tried...contributed in no small degree to augment my satisfaction." Throughout he regards Napoleon as the chosen representative of the people : not that Napoleon is himself... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 672 pages
...(its) own sovereign was to be tried in his person, and the remembrance of the wonderful achievements by which he had given an opportunity to decide that...choice, contributed in no .small degree to augment that satisfaction." A slight and unintentional «rror has, we imagine, Insinuated itself in the abov«... | |
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