Charles Doris
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 182
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: absolute power steeled his heart. In short, if any thing could justify this man, fatally celebrated, and entitle him on the part of the French to the pardon which religion demands, it is that he was the work of a God in anger, who sent him forth to chastise Europe for her secret crimes. Let us not be greater royalists than the King, more severe than the Deity. If the hand of God shall grant him peace and happiness among the rocks of Elba, it is that he is not so guilty in his eyes as in ours. . Jt chapter{Section 4SECRET MEMOIRS ., - NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. No person in the world knew Buonaparte better than myself; no person in the world could know him better?I will not say unless it were himself, for more than once I have guessed what he would do, even before he had projected the thing. It is I alone who am authorised to use such expressions; I should condemn them in any other writer. Nevertheless, if their rashness pass the bounds prescribed by pretension itself, it is that.I have so deeply and so uninterruptedly studied the person whose features 1 sketch, that I have myself the fullest conviction of the truth of what I sav. Princes, ministers, generals, men in plare) have frequented Buonaparte, have conversed with him often in public, sometimes in private. Thesa persons may, perhaps, know him better under the great relations of political, civil and military interests: hut they have scarcely ever seen the prince except through the medium of discussions and debates upon different affairs of importance: then, occupied entirely with the interests, with the business they were discussing, could they give a studied, a concentrated attention to the study of the man. No, such a study will not admit of any thing that distracts the attention; it can only be the...