The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Volumen2Wiley and Putnam, 1847 |
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Página 170 - or unsuccessful! and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.* For the extension of this system, and for the extermination of all established governments, the resources of France have from year to year, and in the midst of the most unparalleled distress, been lavished and exhausted
Página 43 - which they were accustomed to inflict upon their prisoners, he thought it would be an act of charity to comply with their desires and accelerate their end by a few hours. Desgenettes did not approve of this, and replied that his profession was to cure the sick and not to dispatch them. Larrey came to
Página 43 - their opinion on the subject. Accordingly they met, and found that there were seven or eight men so dangerously ill, that they conceived it impossible for them to recover; and also that they could not exist twentyfour or thirty-six hours longer; that moreover, being afflicted with the plague, they would spread that
Página 172 - complains. of such a change, however agreeable to his Majesty's wishes, can result only from experience and the evidence of facts.* The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence would be the restoration of that line of Princes which for so
Página 43 - any General commanding an army under similar circumstances.' " ' Previous to leaving Jaffa,' continued Napoleon, ' and after the greatest number of the sick and wounded had been embarked, it was reported to me that there were some men in the hospital so dangerously ill as not to
Página 50 - apprise him of Lord Keith's refusal to ratify the treaty, which saved the French army | had he kept It a secret seven or eight days longer, Cairo would have been given up to the Turks, and the French army necessarily obliged
Página 172 - to which his own dominions and those of his Allies have been so long exposed have really ceased; whenever he shall be satisfied that the necessity of resistance is at an end ; that after the experience of so many
Página 43 - I believe Las Cases gave me a copy; moreover, it was published in my time.' He then desired me to bring the one which I had, that he might compare them. He observed, ' Miot was a polisson, whom, together with his brother, I raised from the dirt. He says that I threatened him for writing the book, which
Página 44 - should have called a council of war, have stated the necessity of It, and have published It In the order of the day, It should have been no secret. Do you think that If t had been capable of secretly poisoning my
Página 170 - which you have transmitted to me ; and his Majesty, seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe for transacting business with Foreign States, has commanded