The Congress of Verona: Comprising a Portion of Memoirs of His Own Times, Volum 2R. Bentley, 1838 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 213 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Pàgina 194 - I avail myself with pleasure of this occasion to renew to your excellency the assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, &c.
Pàgina 421 - Each of xis, on raking into the profound depths of memory, will discover a bed of death ; — sentiments that are extinguished, chimeras outworn, although once nursed, like those of the dwellers in Herculaneum, at the bosom of Hope ! xxix.
Pàgina 312 - Were the ideas expressed in the letter which your excellency did me the honour to write on the 17th of this month...
Pàgina 214 - England, amid the struggle of political opinions which agitates more or less sensibly different countries of the world, may be compared to that of the Ruler of the Winds, as described by the poet : " Celsa sedet /Eolus arce, Sceptra tenens ; mollitque animos et temperat iras Ni faciat, maria ac terras coelumque profundum Quippe ferant rapidi secum, verrantque per auras.
Pàgina 138 - WITH as is M. de Chateaubriand, that an entire victory was indispensable, and that the least reverse must be ruinous to France, he would have understood the advantage of her doing what no one had a right to disapprove— setting her army on foot, and her navy afloat. The latter may do you the most service. Your troops achieve miracles, but their numbers are everywhere insufficient ; your blockades are ineffectual, and, should you have the misfortune to fail, I know not what ought to console those...
Pàgina 330 - It is absurd enough to say that the United States are the second, or one of the first, maritime powers in the world. They have four ships of the line, and a dozen brigs and frigates.
Pàgina 81 - Ferdinand must not be left to himself, or he would fall back on all the errors that so nearly ruined Europe ; he will need a council, both as rein and bridle.
Pàgina 136 - I thought fit, my dear vicomte, to reserve for a confidential letter some private particulars. This is what the Emperor said to me : " You complain of the mistrust shown towards you by the allies. You expect that, without scrutinising your intentions, or right to advise, they will blindly subscribe to whatever you please, and that the alliance should be merely an auxiliary, to act only as you shall direct. This is exacting too much. France has not yet given Europe such guarantees as should empower...
Pàgina 138 - I have felt all that is due to your national pride, and have taken no offence at the silence in which the name of Alliance has been passed over." He then referred to the Prime Minister's (M. Villele's) feeble support to the war in Spain. " Had he been as persuaded as M. de Chateaubriand that an entire victory was indispensable, and that the least reverse must be ruinous to France, he would have understood the advantage of her setting her army on foot and her navy afloat. Your troops achieve miracles,...