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Página 203 - herself has betrayed it. With your assistance, and that of the brave men who remained faithful to me, I have for three years preserved France from civil war. Be faithful to the new king whom France has chosen ; be obedient to your commanders, and do not abandon your dear country.
Página 203 - I bid you farewell. During the twenty years that we have acted together, I have been satisfied with you. I have always found you in the path of glory. All the powers of Europe have armed against me ; a part of my generals have betrayed their duty ; France herself has betrayed it. With your assistance, and that of the brave men who
Página 168 - take place, and all of them contrary to the policy of the English nation. Peace, then, is at once the interest of the Continent, as it is the interest of the people of Great Britain. We unite
Página 173 - I am pleased to give him the greatest proof of attachment and devotion which has ever been given on earth. I possess all from his bounty; it was his hand which crowned me, and from the
Página 30 - placed. You have done more. The two most beautiful parts of Europe, formerly so celebrated for the arts, the sciences, and the great men which they produced, see, with renovated hope, the genius of liberty rise from the tombs of their ancestors. These are the two pedestals on which the destinies
Página 148 - and persons and property held most scrupulously sacred : that the innocent blood which must be shed, and the horrors of a besieged and bombarded capital, must fall on those only who advised resistance to a measure thus dictated by imperious circumstances
Página 203 - not my fate ; I shall be happy when I know you are so likewise. I might have died ; nothing would have been more easy for me ; but I still wish to pursue the path of glory. What we have done, I will
Página 55 - become of them ? Alas ! they are no more. This state of things cannot last long ; in three years it will end in despotism. But we are for a republic, founded on the basis of equality, civil liberty, and political toleration. If you believe the assertions of the factious, we are the enemies of the
Página 186 - at Smolensk ; and that the latest posterity may speak of your conduct this day with pride—that it may say of you " He was at that great battle under the walls of Moscow.
Página 133 - me no effectual opposition. I placed confidence in the word of this prince, and I behaved with generosity towards him. When the second coalition was dissolved at Marengo, the King of Naples, who