This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...his head and the other extended, exclaims "Ze Premier Consul.' Forth he walks, a firm, short, stolid form, with falling shoulders beneath his tight, deep-blue frock. His tread is heavy rather than majestic--that of a man who has a purpose iu walking, not merely to show himself as a parade. His head is large, and formed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...his head and the other extended, exclaims "Ze Premier Consul.' Forth he walks, a firm, short, stolid form, with falling shoulders beneath his tight, deep-blue frock. His tread is heavy rather than majestic--that of a man who has a purpose iu walking, not merely to show himself as a parade. His head is large, and formed with a perfection which we call classic: his features are noble, modeled by that hand of Nature which framed this man "fearfully," indeed, and "wonderfully." Nothing was ever finer than his mouth--nothing more disappointing than his eye: it is heavy, almost mournful. His him--" not only in the eye, but in every feature, care, thought, melancholy, and meditation are so strongly marked with so much of character, nay, genius, and so penetrating a seriousness, or rather sadness, as powerfully to sink into an observer's mind." It is the countenance of a student, not of a warrior; of one deep in unpractical meditation, not of one whose every act and plan had then been but a tissue of successes. It is the face of a man wedded to deep thought, not of the hero of the battlefield, the ruler of assemblies; and, as if to perfect the contrast, while all around is gorgeous and blaEing, he passes along without a single decoration on his plain dress, not even a star to mark out the first consul. It is well: there can but be one Napoleon in the world, and he wants no distinction. He is followed by diplomatists of every European power, vassals, all, more or less, save England; and to England, and to her sons and daughters, are the most cherished courtesies directed. Does not that recall the present policy? By his side walks a handsome youth whom he has jus been presenting to the Bavarian minister--that envoy from a stra...
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