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...nister. He was one of the chief assistances of that secret government whom Napoleon’s luck send behind the scenes in 1793. (See “An Historical Mystery... ... hopes for the future, but, in spite of all efforts to ingratiate himself, Napoleon’s hatred to the contractors who had speculated on his defeat made ... ...ncement. Genius proceeds in two ways: either it takes its opportunity—like Napoleon, like Moliere—the moment that it sees it, or it waits to be sought... ... a position to choose a husband. France knows that the political system of Napoleon resulted in making many widows. Under that re- gime heiresses were...

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...ver listened to me so patiently. No lawyer has been willing to lend me ten napoleons to enable me to procure from Germany the necessary documents to b... ...rom Siberia. He told me of the catastrophe of the Russian campaign, and of Napoleon’s first abdication. That news was one of the things which caused m... ...e of the party in the Faubourg Saint-Germain which nobly stood out against Napoleon’s blandishments. The reputation for capacity gained by the young C... ...nt was not regarded as news in the circles of the Faubourg Saint- Germain. Napoleon, approving of this union, which carried out his idea of fusion, re... ...e Chabert the money falling to the Exchequer under her husband’s will; but Napoleon’s hopes were again disappointed. Madame Ferraud was not only in lo... ... were opened, dirty, the writ- ing was unrecognizable; and after obtaining Napoleon’s sig- nature to my second marriage contract, I could not help be-... ...as suddenly attacked by a sickness— disgust of humanity. When I think that Napoleon is at Saint- Helena, everything on earth is a matter of indifferen... ...nded to take aim at them, and shouted with a smile: “Fire! both arms! Vive Napoleon!” And he drew a flourish in the air with his stick. “The nature of... ...the Foundling Hospital to die in the Infirmary for the Aged, after helping Napoleon between whiles to conquer Egypt and Europe.—Do you know, my dear f...

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...e. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions h...

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...ates shown equal firmness, Germany would not have been laid at the feet of Napoleon. In 1806 the grand duke was aware of the peril which awaited the a... ... and a mur- derous pursuit through the streets of the town. In the evening Napoleon arrived in person; and now came the trying mo- ment. “The duchess,... ...of the staircase to greet him with the formality of a courtly recep- tion. Napoleon started when he beheld her, Qui etes vous? he exclaimed with chara... ...rcumstances of the moment a dignified vindication of a high-minded policy. Napoleon was deeply impressed with respect for her, and loudly expressed it... ...aigns of the duke, Goethe was his companion; but in the final contest with Napoleon be was unequal to the fatigues of such a post. In all the function... ...n 1830 others fol- lowed; the duchess, who had won so much admiration from Napoleon, died; then followed his own son; and there re- mained little now ... ...in point of time with that of Robert Burns, and that it pre- ceded that of Napoleon by about ten years. The position of Schiller is remarkable. In the...

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...art- ments with limited autonomy Legal system: based on Spanish law and Code Napoleon; constitution adopted 1967; constitution in force except where c... ... 26 governorates Legal system: based on English common law, Islamic law, and Napoleonic codes; permanent constitution written in 1971; judicial review... ...ative Assembly (60 seats), Executive, Supreme Court Government leaders: Jose Napoleon DUARTE, President (since June 1984); Rodolfo CASTILLO Claramount... ...Administrative divisions: 49 provinces Legal system: mixture of Continental (Napoleonic) civil law and Communist legal theory; constitution adopted 19... ...s a Court of Appeal, High Court, and lower courts Government leaders: Arthur Napoleon Raymond ROBINSON, Prime Minister (since December 1986); Noor HAS... ... 20 states, 1 federal district, 2 federal territories Legal system: based on Napoleonic code; constitution promulgated 1961; judicial review of legisl...

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... length to call for reduced type (see 75) : "the Darwinian Welbnschawng;" "Napoleon's cw d'dt~t;'~ "the debater far excellence of the Senate;" "De ...

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...able time in the city of New Y ork; and it was heralded that, like another Napoleon, he was lying by and framing the plan of his campaign. It was tele... ...asion to refer to one or both. When he was preparing his plan of campaign, Napoleon- like, in New Y ork, as appears by two speeches I have heard him d...

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...ll times; but the fourth and grandest belonged exclusively to the war with Napoleon; and this it was which most naturally introduced Waterloo into the... ...ident to the two French invasions of Spain in our own day [1st, that under Napoleon; 2dly, that under the Due d’Angoulême]. Amongst these archives, su... ...s blow over? No; apart from any choice or preference of war on the part of Napoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the... ...ars and martial glories in reserve for the army, what interest had they in Napoleon? This was obscurely acknowledged by every- body. More or less cons... ...of the country. The “sorrow of the time” was ripening to a second harvest. Napoleon had commenced his Vandal, or rather Hunnish War with Britain, in t...

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...posi- tion of the principles of popular, representative self-govern- ment. Napoleon, “The mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream,” had abolished feud... ...hs of the House of Tudor sent to prison jurors who refused to convict, and Napoleon caused them to be returned by his agents. However clear most of th... ...ing upon the capital city, in order to terminate the war at a single blow. Napoleon, it is said, was the inven- 741 Tocqueville tor of this new syste... ...d not depend on any individual man, whoever he might be. The mode in which Napoleon carried on war was sug- gested to him by the state of society in h... ...tral- ization becomes, as it were, the unavoidable state of the coun- try. Napoleon deserves neither praise nor censure for having centred in his own ... ... committed the welfare of such communities to the caprice of an intendant; Napoleon left them to that of the Minister. The same principle governed bot...

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...se lacquered work, or to scramble up chan- deliers. A Sevres vase, bearing Napoleon’s portrait by Mme. Jacotot, stood beside a sphinx dedicated to Ses... ...with the lamp. All of us have been stirred in the same way by the sight of Napoleon, or of some other great man, made illus- trious by his genius or b... ...ence a line. “Perhaps Moses, Sylla, Louis XI., Richelieu, Robespierre, and Napoleon were but the same man who crosses our civi- lizations now and agai... ..., which gives us such an authority over imbeciles!” said the good banker. “Napoleon left us glory, at any rate, my good friend!” ex- claimed a naval o... ... puts a million dei- ties in a sack of flour, that Republics will end in a Napoleon, that monarchy dwells between the assassination of Henry IV. and t... ... been taken prisoner by the Cossacks, at the passage of Beresina; and when Napoleon later on proposed an exchange, the Russian authorities made search... ...stinies; and for witnesses I cited the opinions of Descartes, Diderot, and Napoleon, who had di- rected, and still directed, all the currents of the a... ... The sceptre is a plaything for a child, an axe for a Richelieu, and for a Napoleon a lever by which to move the world. Power leaves us just as it fin...

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...ed in blood by the lurid light of flames and slaughter. Since the death of Napoleon, circumstances, about which the author must keep silence, have sti... ...understanding of a wife’s business was the secret of Josephine’s charm for Napoleon, as in former times it was that of Caesonia for Caius Caligula, of... ... man, sublime after the manner of that nameless soldier who died in saving Napoleon by a “qui vive,” lived at the ministry. In ten minutes Jules was i...

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...n!’ she demanded as though I’d been caught spraying graffiti, ‘Are you the artist?’ How to respond? People who call themselves artists remind me of Napoleon seizing the jewelled cap, crowning himself and living to rue the day. Such accolades are for others to bestow. If, as frequently happens, a painter’s efforts delight no one but himself, then the labour has been littl...

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...ney. The general lack of reasoning ability in our human race is sad, when we all think we are thinking, but we are generally just reacting. As Napole... ...ionally all the time. A brain injured person may not be able to think effectively at any time. The man in the mental hospital who thinks he is Napole... ... time. The man in the mental hospital who thinks he is Napoleon is probably wrong.‖ —―But what if reincarnation exists and he is really Napole... ...billion people who do.‖ —―You‘re right Ray, we can never be sure. But let‘s take the position of Western medicine and assume that this Napole... ...ociety—even those societies that strongly preach equality.‖ WAR AND CONQUERING —―Major warlords come infrequently—Genghis Khan, Hitler, Napole... ...the extreme of a ‗sexaholic‘, a female nymphomanic or a male Don Juan. The power drive can be carried to the extreme of a Hitler, bin Ladin or Napole... ...irrational behavior. Religion and the betterment of society are the most common values used by the severely neurotically power driven people. Napole... ...ic remains motionless for hours on end, and; the paranoid schizophrenic has delusions of fear or grandeur. Hearing voices or thinking you are Napole... ...tments as early in life as possible. ―Because we humans are psychological, a rational appeal to a psychotic isn‘t going anywhere. The Napole...

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...about the first that ever did live or ever will live. Why, he whipped your Napoleon everlasting whenever he met him. He whipped everybody out of the f...

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...ist movement. In several countries he had sons-in-law as lieutenants, like Napoleon’s brothers, and in the various internal contests that arose his wi... ...Bakunin passionately took the side of France, especially after the fall of Napoleon III. He endeavored to rouse the people to revolutionary resistance...

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...to per- 151 Getting Married fection; but it doesnt fit me. I happen, like Napoleon, to prefer Mohammedanism. [Mrs George, associating Mohammedanism w...

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...me the sooner to the grapple of genuine converse. If they know Othello and Napoleon, Consuelo and Clarissa Harlowe, Vautrin and Steenie Steenson, they...

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...dn’t mind drinking something to your lordship’s health.” Silas pressed two Napoleons upon his acceptance, apologising, at the same time, for being obl...

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...nter. It will be perceived that M. Loyal is a staunch admirer of the great Napoleon. He is an old soldier himself—captain of the Na tional Guard, wit... ... of our occupation, it was our affliction to be con stantly knocking down Napoleon: if we touched a shelf in a dark corner, he toppled over with a cr... ...otism which the curious observer may perhaps detect in the conversation of Napoleon Bonaparte. I must do the King the justice to say that it was I, an... ...y of going to the other win dow; sitting astride of the chair there, like Napoleon biv ouacking in the print; and inspecting the cutter as she lay, ... ...ith the highest relish of disdain. ‘Here’s a people!’ he says, pointing to Napoleon in the window and Napoleon on the column. ‘Only one idea all over ... .... ‘Only one idea all over Paris! A monomania!’ Humph! I think I have seen Napoleon’s match? There was a statue, when I came away, at Hyde Park Corner... ...ithin ten minutes. In another, one of the two or three Professors who drew Napoleon Buonaparte and a couple of mackerel, on the pavement and then let ... ...ent, saying that he was observed by those around him to fold his arms like Napoleon Buonaparte, and to snort in his breathing—actions but too expressi... ... demands that our carts should get to Paris by such a route, and no other (Napoleon had leisure to find that out, while he had a little war with the w...

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...d ridden half a mile on the Stratford road, looking as black and dismal as Napoleon gal- loping from the romantic village of Waterloo, he espied, a fe...

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...er the influence of some damnable reflection dropped by a drunken comrade. Napoleon had incorporated these vigorous beings in the sixth of the line, h... ...ng. Montefiore gave himself out as a former Spanish subject, persecuted by Napoleon, whom he was serving against his will; and these semi-lies had the... ...During supper on the second day Montefiore succeeded, by 10 Juana cursing Napoleon, in smoothing the anxious forehead of the merchant, a grave, black... ...l classifications ready-made are perhaps a great boon even for the people. Napoleon has confided to us the pains he took to inspire respect in his cou... ...spect in his court, where most of the court- iers had been his equals. But Napoleon was Corsican, and Diard Provencal. Given equal genius, an islander... ...anted to be made prefect. At that time every one believed in the genius of Napoleon; his favor enhanced the value of all offices. Prefectures, those m...

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...ectionist, would be glad to exchange his own protective tar iff for Louis Napoleon’s free trade one. But why discuss, on probable evidence, notorious...

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... peasants or sergeants of the Old Guard expected the return of Monmouth or Napoleon; the countrymen of Charles of Orleans looked over the straits towa...