The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Том 1Wiley and Putnam, 1847 |
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Adige afterwards Ajaccio alarm Alps Alvinzi arms Army of Italy arrived artillery Assembly attack Augereau Austrian battalions battle blood bridge Buonaparte cause cavalry circumstances Cisalpine Republic column command Committee Constitution Convention Corsica court danger decree defend Directory division Duke Dumouriez enemy enemy's English favor fell fire force France French army French Revolution garrison gave General-in-Chief Genoa Guard head head-quarters inhabitants King Lake of Garda Legnago liberty Louis XVI Mantua Marat Marseilles Massena ment Meuse Milan mind minister Napoleon nation night object occasion opinion Paoli Paris party passed passions patriots peace persons Pichegru pieces of cannon pretended Prince principles prisoners regiment Republic retreat Revolution Rhine Robespierre Rome Sambre sent side siege soldiers spirit taken thing Thuilleries tion took Toulon town tribunal troops turned Tyrol Venice Verona victory violent whole wished Wurmser
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Стр. 96 - Lorraine : all these oppressions fell on the tiers etat only; the nobility and clergy having been equally exempted from tallies, militia and corvees.
Стр. 99 - ... itself, that the people may not find an interest in public confusions. They will always suffer much and long, before they are effectually roused ; nothing, therefore, can kindle the flame, but such oppressions of some classes or order in the society, as give able men the opportunity...
Стр. 265 - Capua in Lombardy? But I see you already hasten to arms. An effeminate repose is tedious to you; the days which are lost to glory are lost to your happiness. Well, then, let us set forth! We have still forced marches to make, enemies to subdue, laurels to gather, injuries to revenge.
Стр. 97 - English reader will scarcely understand it without being told, that there were numerous edicts for preserving the game which prohibited weeding and hoeing, lest the young partridges should be disturbed ; steeping seed, lest it should injure the game ; manuring with night soil, lest the flavour of the partridges should be injured by feeding on the corn so produced; mowing hay, &c. before a certain time, so late as to spoil many crops ; and taking away the stubble, which would deprive the birds of...
Стр. 281 - Gavardo, it was evident that these could be only straggling columns that wanted to clear themselves a passage. He ordered his numerous staff to mount, had the officer who came with the flag of truce brought in, and ordered the bandage to be taken off his eyes in the midst of all the bustle of the head-quarters of a Commander-in-Chief. ' Go and tell your General,' said he, ' that I give him eight minutes to lay down his arms; he is in the midst of the French army; after that time, there are no hopes...
Стр. 96 - ... corvees, or police of the roads, ^ were annually the ruin of many hundreds of farmers ; more than 300 were reduced to beggary in filling up one vale in...
Стр. 77 - The conduct of this nobleman, all through the Revolution, was in my opinion uncalled for, indecent, and profligate, and his fate not unmerited. Persons situated as he was cannot take a decided part one way or the other, without doing violence either to the dictates of reason and justice or to all their natural sentiments, unless they are characters of that heroic stamp as to be raised above suspicion or temptation : the only way for all others is to stand aloof from a struggle in which they have...
Стр. 265 - You will have the immortal glory of changing the face of the finest portion of Europe. The French people, free, and respected by the whole world, will give to Europe a glorious peace, which will indemnify her for the sacrifices of all kinds that she has been making for the last six years.
Стр. 61 - Reflections), and, indeed, so powerful and explicit, that the government undertook to crush it by an ex officio information, and by a declaration of war against France to still the ferment, and excite an odium against its admirers, as taking part with a foreign enemy against their prince and country.
Стр. 301 - ... bridges of Verona for that purpose. Verdier's brigade, which was at the head, overthrew the enemy's van, made a number of prisoners, and encamped at night at the foot of Caldiero. The fires of the bivouacs, as well as the reports of spies and prisoners, left no doubt that Alvinzi meant to receive battle, and had fixed himself firmly in these fine positions, resting his left on the marsh of Arcole and his right on Mount Olivetto and the village of Colognola. At day-break Massena received orders...