Napoleon in Exile: St. Helena (1815-1821)S. Paul & Company, 1915 |
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Page 325 - ... laid out in building, at Longwood, huts covered with pitched paper, which are no longer of any use. You have prohibited every kind of intercourse between us and the inhabitants of the island ; you have, in fact, converted...
Page 275 - Helena," and other works, under the title of Maxims, Sayings, &c., which persons have been pleased to publish for the last six years. Such are not the rules which have guided my life. I caused the Due d'Enghien to be arrested and tried, because that step was essential to the safety, interest, and honour of the French people, when the Count d'Artois was maintaining, by his own confession, sixty assassins at Paris. Under similar circumstances, I should act in the same way.
Page 107 - ... with him, conversing for hours together with me alone, both in his own house and grounds and at Longwood, either in my own room, or under the trees and elsewhere. On some of these occasions he made to me observations upon the benefit which would result to Europe from the death of Napoleon...
Page 319 - Napoleon protests against the purport of that treaty ; he is not the prisoner of England. After having placed his abdication in the hands of the representatives of the nation, for the...
Page 230 - On a superficial view the body appeared very fat, which state was confirmed by the first incision down its centre, where the fat was upwards of one inch and a half over the abdomen. On cutting through the cartilages of the ribs, and exposing the cavity of the thorax, a trifling adhesion of the left pleura was found to the pleura costalis.
Page 324 - The island of St. Helena is ten leagues in circumference ; it is...
Page 320 - Vienna in 1809, when his armies were in possession of the capital and of three-fourths of the monarchy. That prince would have remembered the protestations which he made to him at the bivouac of Moravia in 1806, and at the interview at Dresden in 1812.
Page 107 - ... insinuation is a calumnious falsehood ; but if it were true, and if so horrible a suggestion were made to you directly or indirectly, it was your bounden duty not to have lost a moment in communicating it to the Admiral on the spot, or to the Secretary of State, or to their Lordships. "An overture so monstrous in itself, and so deeply involving not merely the personal character of the Governor, but the...
Page 274 - I recommend to my son never to forget that he was born a French prince, and never to allow himself to become an instrument in the hands of the triumvirs who oppress the nations of Europe ; he ought never to fight against France, or to injure her in any manner ; he ought to adopt my motto — ** Every thing for the French people.
Page 52 - Napoleon, the hero of modern times, had merged in an unsightly and obese individual ; and we looked in vain for that overwhelming power of eye and force of expression which we had been taught to expect by a delusive imagination.