Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, Nide 14Cadell, 1835 |
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Sivu 95 - The equinoctial gales rose higher and higher upon the third night, and extended the flames, with which there was no longer any human power of contending. At the dead hour of midnight, the Kremlin itself was found to be on fire. A soldier of the Russian police, charged with being the incendiary, was turned over to the summary vengeance of the Imperial Guard.
Sivu 96 - Palaces and temples," says a Russian author, " monuments of art, and miracles of luxury, the remains of ages which had past away, and those which had been the creation of yesterday ; the tombs of ancestors, and the nursery-cradles of the present generation, were indiscriminately destroyed. Nothing was left of Moscow save the remembrance of the city, and the deep resolution to avenge its fall."* The fire raged till the 1 9th with unabated violence, and then began to slacken for want of fuel.
Sivu 91 - ... of that refuse of humanity, the only live creatures they could find in the city, but they were wretches of the lowest rank. When he was at last convinced that the desertion of the capital was universal, he smiled bitterly, and said, " The Russians will soon learn better the value of their capital.
Sivu 202 - ... by no means believed. But he certainly had a long conversation with me, which he misrepresents, as might be expected ; and it was at the very moment when he was delivering a long prosing speech, which appeared to me a mere string of absurdity and impertinence, that I scrawled on the corner of the NAPOLEON'S COURT AT DRESDEN.
Sivu 93 - ... fire in the course of the night. The report seemed to arise from those evident circumstances which rendered the event probable, but no one took any notice of it, until at midnight, when the soldiers were startled from their quarters, by the report that the town was in flames. The memorable conflagration began amongst the coachmakers' warehouses and workshops in the Bazaar, or general market, which was the richest district of the city.
Sivu 188 - The weak and helpless either shrunk back from the fray, and sat down to wait their fate at a distance, or, mixing in it, were thrust over the bridges, crushed under carriages, cut down perhaps with sabres, or trampled to death under the feet of their countrymen. All this while the action continued with fury, and, as if the Heavens meant to match their wrath with that of man, a hurricane arose, and added terrors to a scene which was already of a character sodreadful.
Sivu 200 - Archduchess." (This was said with an air of much gaiety.) " In the same manner, in Russia, I could not prevent its freezing. They told me every morning that I had lost ten thousand horses during the night. — Well, farewell to you...
Sivu 45 - Napoleon's person said to each other, that a genius so vast as his, and always increasing in activity and audacity was not now seconded as it had been formerly by a vigorous constitution. They were alarmed at no longer finding their chief insensible to the heat of a burning atmosphere ; and they remarked to each other with melancholy...
Sivu 10 - Napoleon had expressed a wish that the Emperor of Austria, several kings, and a crowd of princes, should meet him at Dresden : his desire was fulfilled : all thronged to meet him ; some induced by hope, others prompted by fear ; for himself, his motives were to feel his power, to exhibit it, and enjoy it."— COUNT...
Sivu 95 - ... rendering their dreadful work more secure. Several wretches against whom such acts had been charged were seized upon, and, probably without much inquiry, were shot on the spot While it was almost impossible to keep the roof of the Kremlin clear of the burning brands which showered down the wind, Napoleon watched from the windows the course of the fire which devoured his fair conquest, and the exclamation burst from him, " These are indeed Scythians...