History of the Expedition to Russia: Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in the Year 1812, 第 1 卷

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Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, 1827
 

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第 188 頁 - ... of the enemy, and in chance. Having at last determined, he hastily arose, as if not to allow time to his own reflections to renew so painful a state of uncertainty ; and already quite full of the plan which was to secure his conquest, he hastened to his maps ; they presented to his view the cities of Smolensk and Moscow ; " the great Moscow, the holy city ;" names which he repeated with satisfaction, and which served to add new fuel to his ambitious flame.
第 339 頁 - Was this he who had always pushed his successes to the furthest possible limits, whom fortune had just found cold and inactive, at a time when she was offering him her last favours ? The losses were certainly immense, and out of all proportion to the advantages gained. Every one around him had to lament the loss of a friend, a relation, or a brother; for the fate of battles had fallen on the most distinguished.
第 65 頁 - Can you not see," said he to them, " that, as I was not born upon a throne, I must support myself on it, as I ascended it, by my renown ? that it is necessary for it to go on increasing; that a private individual, become a sovereign like myself, can no longer stop ; that he must be continually ascending, and that to...
第 127 頁 - To this it is my duty to add, that I have guaranteed to the emperor of Austria the integrity of his dominions, and that I cannot sanction any manoeuvre, or the least movement, tending to disturb the peaceable possession of what remains to him of the Polish provinces.
第 109 頁 - Are we no more the soldiers who fought at Austerlitz ? She places us between dishonour and war. Our choice cannot be difficult. Let us then march forward. Let us cross the Niemen, and carry the war into her country. This second Polish war will be as glorious for the French arms as the first has been; but the peace we shall conclude, will carry with it its own guarantee, and will terminate the fatal influence which Russia, for fifty years past, has exercised in Europe.
第 224 頁 - All refused to leave him; when the king angrily turning about, tore himself from this scene of carnage, like a man who is suffering violence.
第 109 頁 - SOLDIERS ! — The second war of Poland \ has commenced. The first was brought to a close at Friedland and Tilsit. At Tilsit, Russia swore eternal alliance with France, and war with England. She now violates her oaths. She refuses to give any explanation of her strange conduct, until the Eagles of France shall have repassed the Rhine, leaving, by such a movement, our allies at her mercy. Russia is dragged along by a fatality ! Her destinies must be accomplished.
第 342 頁 - Napoleon subsequently rode over the field of battle, and we can believe Segur, that " never did one present so horrible an appearance." Every thing concurred to make it so ; a gloomy sky, a cold rain, a violent wind, houses burnt to ashes, a plain turned topsy-turvy, covered with ruins and rubbish, in the distance the sad and sombre verdure of the trees of the north ; soldiers roaming about in all directions, and hunting for provisions, even in the haversacks of their dead companions; horrible wounds,...
第 257 頁 - I have eeen Napoleon. I have spoken to him. O, how have we been deceived, my children. The Emperor of France is not the man he has been represented to you. He and his soldiers worship the same God that we do. The war that he wages is not religious ; it is a political quarrel with our Emperor. His soldiers fight only against our soldiers. They do not slaughter, as we have been told, women and children.
第 326 頁 - ... came to inform him of the loss of his best generals. He - rose several times to take a few turns, but immediately sat down again. Every one around him looked at him with astonishment.

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