1810, ISBN: 9781458852762

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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: CHAPTER III. KING JOSEPH. 'W'ERY early I conceived a child's enthusiasm for the Emperor Napoleon. My father was reading Scott's Life of him when I was a little girl, and was so much impressed with the greatness and the genius of the man against whose power he had fought for nineteen years that from the passages he read aloud, and the remarks he made in appreciation of the energy and genius of the late Emperor, I conceived the notion that that personage was little less than a demigod. Subsequently I was startled by a furtive perusal of an old pamphlet, found in a lumber room, published as I now believe about the year 1810, which conclusively proved, as it seemed to me, that Napoleon was the Great Beast of the Revelation, that the name of Napoleon, which might be made to sound like Apollyon, clearly rhade certain his diabolical origin, and was a wonderful example of minute and verbal prophecy. When older I discovered that the facts of history had not borne out- the conclusions drawn from Scripture by the author of the tract, and I returned to my old allegiance to Napoleon, with a strong distaste thenceforward for crude guesses drawn from misconceptions of prophecy. I saw Napoleon's funeral at Paris in December, 1840, and no French girl could have wept tears of more genuine emotion but the Napoleon of my idolatry has been shattered by his biographers, by whose care his acts, his aims, his private vices, and his public policy now stand in bare deformity. They no longer glitter in the light of his genius, power, and success, which during his lifetime and for many years afterwards made it almost impossible to see them clearly. I am now inclined to agree with the French writer who speaks of him thus: ? " After Austerlitz Napoleon dreamed of universal dominion. He said ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9781458852762

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ISBN: 9781458852762

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either pa… More...

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