The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon BuonaparteR.Cadell, 1834 |
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Página 6 - Europe is now divided into twelve powerful, though unequal kingdoms, three respectable commonwealths, and a variety of smaller, though independent states: the chances of royal and ministerial talents are multiplied, at least, with the number of its rulers; and a Julian, or Semiramis, may reign in the North, while Arcadius and Honorius again slumber on the thrones of the South.
Página 54 - ... in this celebrated conspiracy against a religion; •which, however it may be defaced by human inventions, breathes only that peace on earth, and good will to the children of men, which was proclaimed by Heaven at its divine origin.
Página 311 - Let us follow that rabble,' said Bonaparte to me. We got before them, and went to walk in the gardens, on the terrace overlooking the water. From this station he beheld the disgraceful occurrences that ensued. I should fail in attempting to depict the surprise and indignation roused within him.
Página 5 - ... by education, luxury, and despotic power. The deepest wounds were inflicted on the empire during the minorities of the sons and grandsons of Theodosius ; and, after those incapable princes seemed to attain the age of manhood, they abandoned the church to the bishops, the state to the eunuchs, and the provinces to the Barbarians. Europe is now divided into twelve powerful, though unequal, kingdoms, three respectable commonwealths, and a variety of smaller, though independent, states; the chances...
Página 231 - Surely,' said the worthy Neapolitan, 'the sun must vanish from heaven at such a combination of fatalities/ But they did not cease here. The Archbishop of Palermo, he is informed, has also died suddenly. Overcome by this last shock he retired to bed, but not to sleep. In the morning he was disturbed in his melancholy reverie by a rumbling noise, which he recognised at once to be the motion of the wooden instrument which makes macaroni.
Página 334 - Bridges drove them off in a spirited manner. The King was as pale as a corpse. The royal family came in again. The Queen told me that all was lost ; that the King had shown no energy ; and that this sort of review had done more harm than good.
Página 329 - ... abused, ill-treated, and surrounded by assassins. They had a battle to fight at every step they took ; and at length they did not dare to sleep in their houses.
Página 355 - It may be hoped, and, for the honour of human nature, we are inclined to believe, there was a touch of insanity in this unnatural strain of ferocity; and the wild and squalid features of the wretch appear to have intimated a degree of alienation of mind.
Página 53 - Religion cannot exist where immorality generally prevails, any more than a light can burn where the air is corrupted ; and, accordingly, infidelity was so general in France, as to predominate in almost every rank of society.
Página 345 - King : he was having his hair dressed ; he took two locks of it, and gave one to my sister and one to me. In the third was the Queen, in bed, and in an indescribable state of affliction. We found her attended only by a bulky woman, who appeared tolerably civil ; she waited upon the Queen, who, as yet, had none of her own people about her. I asked her majesty what the ambassadors from foreign powers had done under existing circumstances?