The Congress of Verona: Comprising a Portion of Memoirs of His Own Times, Nide 2

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Sivu 213 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Sivu 194 - I shall be favoured with an 196 197 answer at as early a day as your convenience will permit, and I avail myself with pleasure of this occasion to renew to your excellency the assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, &c.
Sivu 278 - Polignac having announced to Mr, Canning that His Excellency was now prepared to enter with Mr. Canning into a frank explanation of the views of his Government respecting the question of Spanish America, in return for a similar communication which Mr.
Sivu 364 - ... of the Sieur Vicomte de Chateaubriand. " The president of our council of ministers is charged with the execution of the present ordinance, which shall be inserted in the bulletin of the laws. "Given at Paris, in our Chateau of theTuileries, the 6th of June, in the year of grace 1821-, and the twenty-ninth of our reign.
Sivu 313 - I delivered to him the list of the quarters wanted, and expect to meet with him here on my return from Charlotte, if your excellency invests him with sufficient authority.
Sivu 364 - ... Marshals : here I found my secretary, Hyacinth Pilorge ; he handed to me the following letter and ordinance, saying, as he did so, " Monsieur is no longer minister.'* The Due de Lauzun, director of political affairs, had in fact opened the packet during my absence, and had not ventured to bring it me. " Monsieur le Vicomte, "I obey the orders of the King in transmitting instantly to your excellency an ordinance which His Majesty has issued. " I have the honour to be, &c. " The President of the...
Sivu 81 - Ferdinand must not be left to himself, or he would fall back on all the errors that so nearly ruined Europe ; he will need a council, both as rein and bridle.
Sivu 290 - ... Bois-le-Comte will make, further proof of the interest taken by the Emperor that nothing should arrest the developement of our resources and prosperity. One might be astonished at any person having the audacity to make such a proposition to the Emperor as is alluded to ; but the fact is, all parties in turn have believed themselves able to attach this prince to their respective interests, and to make a tool of him. The Bonapartists incessantly pester him in favour of young Napoleon ; another...
Sivu 423 - ... ramparts will be blown into air, and the populace will enter through the breach made in the crumbling walls. One cannot repel the invasion of advancing years by souvenirs. In vain did Sabinus place ancestral statues upon the threshold of the gates of the Capitol to prevent the enemy from penetrating torch in hand. The very eagles supporting the arches took fire and communicated it to the edifice, their paternal bed.

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