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... hope to find , the members of an use- ful , active , and popular administration . Their ranks contained many well qualified to be the grace and ornament of a court ; but few , it would seem , fitted for the support and defence of a ...
... hope to find , the members of an use- ful , active , and popular administration . Their ranks contained many well qualified to be the grace and ornament of a court ; but few , it would seem , fitted for the support and defence of a ...
Page 64
... hope , instead of terror , upon the approaching storm . Those who were attached to the parties of the Liberalists and Royalists saw Buonaparte's successful progress with other 11 64 PAUL'S LETTERS Say, were ye tired of godly peace, ...
... hope , instead of terror , upon the approaching storm . Those who were attached to the parties of the Liberalists and Royalists saw Buonaparte's successful progress with other 11 64 PAUL'S LETTERS Say, were ye tired of godly peace, ...
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... hope and energy ; and the whole kingdom seemed transformed at once into an immense camp , of which Napoleon was the leader and soul . One large army defiled towards Bel- gium , where the neighbourhood of the Eng- lish and 72 PAUL'S LETTERS.
... hope and energy ; and the whole kingdom seemed transformed at once into an immense camp , of which Napoleon was the leader and soul . One large army defiled towards Bel- gium , where the neighbourhood of the Eng- lish and 72 PAUL'S LETTERS.
Page 82
... hope to recruit and extend his army by new levies , drawn from a country which had so lately been a part of his own kingdom , and which had not yet had time to attach itself to the new dynasty of powers to whom it had been as- signed 82 ...
... hope to recruit and extend his army by new levies , drawn from a country which had so lately been a part of his own kingdom , and which had not yet had time to attach itself to the new dynasty of powers to whom it had been as- signed 82 ...
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... hope when their forces were concentrated , and when their artillery and cavalry , the want of which had been so severely felt during the whole of that bloody day , should be brought up into line ? Meanwhile they enjoyed the most decided ...
... hope when their forces were concentrated , and when their artillery and cavalry , the want of which had been so severely felt during the whole of that bloody day , should be brought up into line ? Meanwhile they enjoyed the most decided ...
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Page 170 - Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win...
Page 18 - And arrowy frize, and wedged ravelin, Wove like a diadem its tracery round The lofty summit of that mountain green ; Here stood secure the group, and eyed a distant scene.
Page 403 - We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Page 154 - Greys, and made a charge, the effect of which was tremendous. Notwithstanding the weight and armour of the cuirassiers, and the power of their horses, they proved altogether unable to withstand the shock of the heavy brigade, being literally rode down, both horse and man, while the strength of the British soldiers was no less pre-eminent when they mingled and fought hand to hand. Several hundreds of French were forced headlong over a sort of quarry or gravel pit, where they rolled a confused and...
Page 156 - You are uncommonly savage to-day," said an officer to his friend, a young man of rank, who was arming himself with a third sabre, after two had been broken in his grasp :
Page 418 - A youth who scarce had seen his twentieth year Was Wallenstein, when he and I were friends ; Yet even then he had a daring soul : His frame of mind was serious and severe Beyond his years : his dreams were of great objects.
Page 419 - Yet even then he had a daring soul : His frame of mind was serious and severe Beyond his years : his dreams were of great objects. He...
Page 169 - England ?" On another occasion, when many of the best and bravest men had fallen, and the event of the action seemed doubtful even to those who remained, he said, with the coolness of a spectator, who was beholding some well-contested sport— " Never mind, we'll win this battle yet." To another regiment, then closely engaged, he used a common sporting expression ; " Hard pounding this, gentlemen ; let's see who will pound longest.
Page 419 - His marvellous preservation had transformed him. Thenceforth he held himself for an exempted And privileged being, and, as if he were Incapable of dizziness or fall, He ran along the unsteady rope of life. But now our destinies drove us asunder: He paced with rapid step the way of greatness, Was Count, and Prince, Duke-regent, and Dictator. And now is all, all this too little for him ; He stretches forth his hands for a king's crown, And plunges in unfathomable ruin.