Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: journal de la vie privée et des conversations de l'Empereur Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène

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H. Colburn and Company, 1823
 

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Strona 30 - I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous, of my enemies.
Strona 127 - We were the most innocent creatures imaginable," the Emperor used to say ; " we contrived little meetings together. I well remember one which took place on a Midsummer morning, just as daylight began to dawn : it will scarcely be believed that all our happiness consisted in eating cherries together.
Strona 65 - Helena, and afterwards to the latter ; and if no objection is to be made to his proposal, the Admiral or the Governor can give the necessary orders, and the disbursement will be paid by bills on his Majesty's treasury. •In case of death...
Strona 60 - British faith will have been lost in the hospitality of the Bellerophon. " I appeal to history. It will say, that an enemy, who for twenty years...
Strona 199 - Physician-in-chief, and who were in an absolutely desperate condition, totally unfit to be removed, while the enemy was advancing, it is very true that Napoleon asked the Physician-in-chief whether it would not be an act of humanity to administer opium to them. It is also true that the physician replied, his business was to cure, and not to kill...
Strona 382 - When I acquired the supreme direction of affairs, it was wished that I might become a Washington. Words cost nothing ; and no doubt those who were so ready to express the wish did so without any knowledge of times, places, persons, or things. Had I been in America, I would willingly have been a Washington, and I should have had little merit in so being; for I do not see how I could reasonably have acted otherwise. But had Washington been in France, exposed to discord within, and invasion from without,...
Strona 383 - JEsop, he would now, perhaps, have been the governor's adviser ; if an ardent and zealous Christian, he would have borne his chains in the sight of God, and blessed them. As for poor Toby, he endures his misfortunes very quietly; he stoops to his work, and spends his days in innocent tranquillity.
Strona 59 - Heaven and of men, against the violence done me, and against the violation of my most sacred rights, in forcibly disposing of my person and my liberty. I came voluntarily on board of the Bellerophon ; I am not a prisoner, I am the guest of England.
Strona 56 - sometimes an idea of quitting you, and this " would not be very difficult ; it is only necessary " to create a little mental excitement, and I shall " soon have escaped. — All will be over, and you " can then quietly rejoin your families. This is " the more easy, since my internal principles do " not oppose any bar to it :— I am one of those " who conceive that the pains of the other world " were only imagined as a counterpoise to those " inadequate allurements which are offered to
Strona 58 - This is the second incident of the same nature that has occurred within a month. The First Consul directs it to be inserted in the order-book of the Guard : — That a soldier ought to know how to vanquish the pangs and melancholy of the passions ; that there is as much true courage in bearing up against mental sufferings with constancy as in remaining firm on the wall of a battery. To give ourselves up to grief without resistance, or to kill ourselves to escape affliction, is to abandon the field...

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