 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 430 pàgines
...war. The causes assigned for his breach with Russia, unjust in their essence, had been put upon a pLin of settlement ; yet his armies continued to bear down...Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every thing as he wished to see it, and was apt to dispute even realities, if they did not coincide... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 468 pàgines
...Thus the first act of Buonaparte went to excite a national feeling, from the banks of the Boristhenes to the wall of China, and to unite against him the...Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every thing as he •wished to see it, and was apt to dispute even realities, if they did not coincide... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 482 pàgines
...Thus the first act of Buonaparte went to excite a national feeling, from the banks of the Boristhenes to the wall of China, and to unite against him the...Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every thing as he wished to see it, and was apt to dispute even realities, if they did not coincide... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 482 pàgines
...Thus the first act of Buonaparte went to excite a national feeling, from the banks of the Boristhenes to the wall of China, and to unite against him the...Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every thing as he wished to gee it, and was apt to dispute even realities, if they did not coincide... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 498 pàgines
...excité a national feeling, from the banks of the Borysthenes to the wall of China, and to unite again»! him the wild and uncivilized inhabitants of an extended...stern devotion, which he was incapable of estimating, [t was a remarkable characteristic of Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 498 pàgines
...excité a national feeling, from the banks of the Borysthenes to the wall of China, and to unite again»! him the wild and uncivilized inhabitants of an extended...stern devotion, which he was incapable of estimating, [t was a remarkable characteristic of Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 376 pàgines
...impetuous energy of the French troops."* So, also, we read how the haughty aggressions of Bonaparte " went to excite a national feeling from the banks of...character of stern devotion, which he was incapable of estimating."t But the Russia of 1709 had no such forces to oppose to an assailant. Her whole population... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 pàgines
...wall of China, and to unite against him the wild and uncivilized inhabitants of an extended * Alison. empire, possessed by a love to their religion, their...stern devotion, which he was incapable of estimating." * But the Russia of 1709 had no such forces to oppose to an assailant. Her whole population then was... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 466 pàgines
...Thus the first act of Buonaparte went to excite a national feeling, from the banks of the Boristhenes to the wall of China, and to unite against him the...Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every thing as he wished to see it, and was apt to dispute even realities, if they did not coincide... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1876 - 406 pàgines
...Thus the first act of Buonaparte went to excite a national feeling, from the banks of the Boristhenes to the wall of China, and to unite against him the...Napoleon, that when he had once fixed his opinion, he saw every thing as he wished to see it, and was apt to dispute even realities, if they did not coincide... | |
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Buonaparte went to excite a national feeling, from the banks of the Borysthenes to the wall of China, and to unite against him the wild and uncivilized inhabitants of an extended empire, possessed by a love to their religion, their government, and their... 
