The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volumen8John Ballantyne and Company, 1817 |
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Página 92
... Buona tists , and constitutionalists . The ROYALISTS , while they added little real strength to the king by their numbers , attracted much jealous ob- servation from their high birth and equally high pretensions ; embroiled his affairs ...
... Buona tists , and constitutionalists . The ROYALISTS , while they added little real strength to the king by their numbers , attracted much jealous ob- servation from their high birth and equally high pretensions ; embroiled his affairs ...
Página 94
... Buona- parte , who had his reasons for fearing the influence of the clergy . " We will not put down the ecclesiastical establishment by force ; we will starve it to death . " Accordingly all grants and bequests to the church had been so ...
... Buona- parte , who had his reasons for fearing the influence of the clergy . " We will not put down the ecclesiastical establishment by force ; we will starve it to death . " Accordingly all grants and bequests to the church had been so ...
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... Buona- parte , this jacobinical party was re- pressed by a strong hand . He knew , by experience of every sort , their rest- less , intriguing , and dangerous disposi- tion . They also knew and feared his strength , and his unscrupulous ...
... Buona- parte , this jacobinical party was re- pressed by a strong hand . He knew , by experience of every sort , their rest- less , intriguing , and dangerous disposi- tion . They also knew and feared his strength , and his unscrupulous ...
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... Buona- parte . The occasion was never dis- tinetly known , but it has been suppo sed that Buonaparte suspected Fouché of a desire to form an interest se parate from his own , by means of the immense influence and exten- sive information ...
... Buona- parte . The occasion was never dis- tinetly known , but it has been suppo sed that Buonaparte suspected Fouché of a desire to form an interest se parate from his own , by means of the immense influence and exten- sive information ...
Página 133
... Buona- parte , and shared his taint of usurpa- tion . Bernadotte lay distant from France , and had besides , in the cam- paign of 1813 , deserved well of the European league . The merits of Murat were more questionable , and there were ...
... Buona- parte , and shared his taint of usurpa- tion . Bernadotte lay distant from France , and had besides , in the cam- paign of 1813 , deserved well of the European league . The merits of Murat were more questionable , and there were ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 273 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 335 - A victim to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people.
Página 359 - ... improved into liberal arrangements on other subjects on which the parties have mutual interests, or which might endanger their future harmony. Congress will decide on the expediency of promoting such a sequel by giving effect to the measure of confining the American navigation to American seamen — a measure which, at the same time that it might have that conciliatory tendency, would have the further advantage of increasing the independence of our navigation and the resources for our maritime...
Página 295 - Art. XVII. The Ratifications shall be exchanged to-morrow the 4th, of July, at six o'clock in the morning at the Bridge of Neuilly. Art. XVIII. Commissioners shall be named by the respective parties, in order to watch over the execution of the present Convention.
Página 169 - ... those which they close, and perpetuate revenge and hatred and blood from age to age. Europe seemed to breathe after her sufferings. In the midst of this fair prospect, and of these consolatory hopes, Napoleon...
Página 162 - France with projects of confiision and disorder, he has deprived himself of the protection of the law, and has manifested to the universe, that there can be neither peace nor truce with him.
Página 327 - ... any number of individual powers in Europe, the day of retribution must come. " Not only, then, would it, in my opinion, be unjust in the sovereigns to gratify the people of France on this subject, at the expense of their own people, but the sacrifice they would make would be impolitic, at it would deprive them of the opportunity of giving the people of France a great moral lesson " During these agitating transactions, the articles of peace, so necessary for all parties, were at length finally...
Página 183 - ... peace with a war establishment, and a war to follow it ; recollect further, that whatever be your resources they must outlast those of all your enemies ; and further, that your empire cannot be saved by a calculation : besides, your wealth is only...
Página 294 - VIII. To-morrow, the 4th of July, at mid-day, St. Denis, St. Ouen, Clichy, and Neuilly, shall be given up.
Página 262 - My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son, under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French.