The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... fortune , but by their deeds . Napoleon held in his grasp the largest share of power ever confided by Providence to a mortal hand for the purpose of creating civilization and nationality . What has he left behind him ? Nothing but a ...
... fortune , but by their deeds . Napoleon held in his grasp the largest share of power ever confided by Providence to a mortal hand for the purpose of creating civilization and nationality . What has he left behind him ? Nothing but a ...
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... fortune . His intelligence and activity diminished in proportion as his empire extended . Separated from his fellow men by the servile court he had gathered around him , and always clothed in the drapery of empire , as if apprehensive ...
... fortune . His intelligence and activity diminished in proportion as his empire extended . Separated from his fellow men by the servile court he had gathered around him , and always clothed in the drapery of empire , as if apprehensive ...
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... fortune . The most pre judiced historian must hail him as great in this final effort to retain the fortune that was eluding his grasp . He shook off ten years of his age . His soul , benumbed by the throne , Napoleon's personal ...
... fortune . The most pre judiced historian must hail him as great in this final effort to retain the fortune that was eluding his grasp . He shook off ten years of his age . His soul , benumbed by the throne , Napoleon's personal ...
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... fortune . There was a lurking recollection of the terrible '93 in the government of Napoleon , who had lived , and grown up , and been intimate with the men Pere la Pensée . Convocation of the Council of State of that period . 1813. ] 7 ...
... fortune . There was a lurking recollection of the terrible '93 in the government of Napoleon , who had lived , and grown up , and been intimate with the men Pere la Pensée . Convocation of the Council of State of that period . 1813. ] 7 ...
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... fortune which by its adverse obstinacy seriously compromised their own positions . They were melancholy and undecided . Napoleon had learned their sentiments from his minister of police , and had resolved to astonish them by the ...
... fortune which by its adverse obstinacy seriously compromised their own positions . They were melancholy and undecided . Napoleon had learned their sentiments from his minister of police , and had resolved to astonish them by the ...
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