The Revolutionary Plutarch:: Exhibiting the Most Distinguished Characters, Literary, Military, and Political, in the Recent Annals of the French Republic, Band 2John Murray ... John Harding ... and sold, 1806 |
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Seite 262 - consented to become his agent, and to administer poison to the sick. Opium at night was distributed in gratifying food ; the wretched unsuspecting victims banqueted ; and in a few hours five hundred and eighty soldiers, who had suffered so much for their country, perished thus miserably by the order of its idoL " Is there a Frenchman whose blood does not
Seite 262 - Buonaparte was not to be diverted from his object by moral considerations ; he persevered, and found an apothecary who (dreading the weight of power, but who since has made an atonement to his mind by unequivocally confessing the
Seite 258 - ordered them to be marched to a rising ground near Jaffa, where a division of French infantry formed against them. When the Turks had entered into their fatal alignment, and the mournful preparations were completed, the signal gun fired. Vollies of
Seite 261 - and historical truth must now recite one equal to any which has blackened its page. " Buonaparte, finding that his hospitals at Jaffa were crowded with sick, sent for a physician, whose name should be inscribed in letters of gold, but which,
Seite 259 - are furnished, declared that this was a scene, the retrospect of which tormented their recollection, and that they could not reflect on it without horror, accustomed as they had been to sights of cruelty. " These were the prisoners whom Assalini, in his very able work on the
Seite 264 - there be found another man of such Machiavelian principles, as by sophistry to palliate those transactions; nor must the judgment abuse itself by bringing to recollection the horrors of the French Revolution, and thus diminishing the force of those crimes by the frequency of equal guilt in France, during her contest for Liberty or Slavery*.
Seite 258 - the subsequent treason of an individual shall not deprive you ! " Three days afterwards Buonaparte, who had expressed much resentment at the compassion manifested by. his troops, and determined to relieve himself from the maintenance and care of three thousand eight hundred
Seite 299 - des idées de vaine grandeur, le bien ¿u commerce, la prospérité intérieure, le bonheur des familles ? Comment ne sentent-elles pas que la paix est le premier des
Seite 261 - weighty reasons, cannot be here inserted: on his arrival he entered into a long conversation with him respecting the danger of contagion, concluding at last with the remark, that something must be done to remedy the evil,
Seite 262 - my principles, nor the character of my profession, will allow me to become a human butcher ; and, General, if such qualities as you insinuate are necessary to form a great man, I thank my God that