The Life of the Empress Josephine: First Wife of NapoleonDerby and Miller, 1851 - 383 стор. |
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Сторінка 134 - Do you believe that it is possible for me ever to forget your cares and your love ? Think you I can ever become indifferent about one who sweetens existence by all that is delightful in passion ? Can I ever efface from my memory your kindness to Hortense — your counsel and example to Eugene ? If this appear to you impossible, how can you suspect me of being interested for a single moment in what is alien to you ? " Oh ! my friend, in place of lending an ear to impostors, who, from motives which...
Сторінка 354 - ... your wishes are fulfilled ? Having ceased to be your wife, dare I felicitate you on becoming a father ? Yes, sire, without hesitation, for my soul renders justice to yours, in like manner as you know mine...
Сторінка 328 - ... not say of so many sacrifices, (they were sweet, because made for you) — but of an attachment unbounded on my part, and of the most solemn oaths on yours. But the state, whose interests you put forward as a motive, will, it is said, indemnify me, by justifying you! These interests, however...
Сторінка 376 - The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to...
Сторінка 90 - Thou seest, then, that there is indeed no cause for mourning on his account : it is over the wicked, the insensate men who survive him, that tears are to be shed ; for they inflict, and are incapable of repairing the evil. But let us not sully with their guilty image these last moments. I would, on the contrary, adorn them by the thought, that having been united to a charming woman, I might have beheld the years passed with her glide away without the slightest cloud, had not wrongs, of which I became...
Сторінка 16 - On concluding these words," continued Josephine, " the old woman burst from the crowd, and hurried away, as fast as her limbs, enfeebled by age, would permit. I forbade the bystanders to molest or banter the pretended prophetess on this ridiculous prediction ; and took occasion, from the seeming absurdity of the whole proceeding, to caution the young negresses how they gave heed to such matters.
Сторінка 108 - ... they are expressed ; but, I confess it, I shrink from the despotism he seems desirous of exercising over all who approach him. His searching glance has something singular and inexplicable, which imposes even on our Directors: judge if it may not intimidate a woman...
Сторінка 119 - ARMISTICE WITH THE KING OF SARDINIA ; CONVENTION WITH GENOA ; ARMISTICE WITH THE DUKE OF PARMA ; ARMISTICE WITH THE KING OF NAPLES ; ARMISTICE WITH THE POPE ; PRELIMINARIES OF LEOBEN ; CONVENTION OF MONTEBELLO WITH THE REPUBLIC OF GENOA ; TREATY OF PEACE WITH THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY AT CAMPOFORMIO.
Сторінка 249 - I remind the Senate, that as fathers of their country, and conservators of her institutions, to them belongs the sole duty of maintaining a balance between the different powers of the state, not permitting themselves to encroach upon any one. To the legislative body I say that their functions are to judge, and to pass laws, particularly those relating to taxation, without meddling in the march of government, which such interference would impede. I call to the remembrance of the council of state,...
Сторінка 5 - Like the lily, That once was mistress of the field and flowers here, I'll hang my bead and perish.'' Josephine, for the times in which she lived, was a model of female character ; and if this volume shall make the study of it...