The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Napoleon BuonaparteR.Cadell, 1835 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 397 - I die in the apostolical Roman religion, in the bosom of which I was born, more than fifty years since. 2. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well. 3. I have always had reason to be pleased with my dearest wife, Marie Louise.
Pàgina 399 - Bignon, one hundred thousand francs. I engage him to write the history of French diplomacy, from 1792 to 1815. 33. Item. To Poggi de Talavo, one hundred thousand francs. 34. Item. To surgeon Emmery, one hundred thousand francs. 35. These sums will be raised from the six millions which I deposited on leaving Paris in 1815 ; and from the interest, at the rate of five per cent, since July 1815.
Pàgina 260 - ... excited by some point of particular interest. It is impossible to imagine an expression of more entire mildness, I may almost call it of benignity and kindliness, than that which played over his features during the whole interview. If, therefore, he were at this time out of health and in low spirits, his power of self-command must have been even more extraordinary than is generally supposed ; for his whole deportment, his conversation, and the expression of his countenance, indicated a, frame...
Pàgina 399 - Whatever that deposit may produce beyond the sum of five million six hundred thousand francs, which have been above disposed of, shall be distributed as a gratuity amongst the wounded at the battle of Waterloo, and amongst the officers and soldiers of the battalion of the Isle of Elba, according to a scale to be determined upon by Montholon, Bertrand, Drouot, Cambrone, and the surgeon Larrey.
Pàgina 132 - Napoleon used to start a subject of conversation, or revive that of some preceding day, and when he had taken eight or nine turns the whole length of the deck he would seat himself on the second gun from the gangway on the larboard side. The midshipmen soon observed this habitual predilection, so that the cannon was thenceforth called the Emperor's gun.
Pàgina 17 - However this may be, a complete panic at once spread itself throughout the whole field of battle, and they threw themselves in the greatest disorder on the line of communication; soldiers, cannoneers, caissons, all pressed to this point; the old guard, which, was in reserve, was infected, and was itself hurried along. In an instant, the whole army was nothing but a mass of ^confusion...
Pàgina 406 - Dugomier, who commanded in chief the army of Toulon, the sum of one hundred thousand francs. We under his orders directed that siege, and commanded the artillery ; it is a testimonial of remembrance for the marks of esteem, of affection, and of friendship, which that brave and intrepid general gave us.
Pàgina 378 - Heaven and of men, against the violence done me, and against the violation of my most sacred rights, in forcibly disposing of my person and my liberty. " I came voluntarily on board of the Bellerophon ; I am not a prisoner — I am the guest of England.
Pàgina 406 - By the dispositions which we have heretofore made, we have not fulfilled all our obligations ; which has decided us to make this fourth codicil. 1. We bequeath to the son or grandson of Baron Dutheil, lieutenant-general of artillery, and formerly lord of St Andre, who commanded the school of Auxonne before the Revolution, the...
Pàgina 258 - I have met with in any other instance. His questions were not by any means put at random, but each one had some definite reference to that which preceded it, or was about to follow. I felt in a short time so completely exposed to his view, that it would have been impossible to have concealed or qualified the smallest particular. Such, indeed, was the rapidity of his apprehension of the subjects which interested him, and the astonishing ease with which he arranged and generalized the few points of...