 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - France - 1823 - 430 pages
...organize them in battalions and regiments. This blow struck at once at London and at Saint-Petersburg. Paul, attacked in so many different directions, gave...ardour of his character. He despatched a letter to the First Consul, in which he said, " Citizen, First Consul, I do not write to you to discuss the rights... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 428 pages
...under the displeasure of his master, at a distance from his family, and abandoned by his friends. 1 | " Paul, attacked in so many different directions, gave...Napoleon, in which he said, " Citizen first consul, I do Dot write to you to discuss the rights of men or citizens; every country governs itself as it pleases.... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1836 - 490 pages
...to organize them in battalions and regiments. This blow struck at once at London and St. Petersburg. Paul, attacked in so many different directions, gave...ardour of his character. He despatched a letter to the first consul, in which he said, ' Citizen, First Consul, I do not write to you to discuss the rights... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - France - 1839 - 636 pages
...struck at once at London and St. Pelersburgh. Paul attacked in so many different directions, irave way to his enthusiastic temper, and attached himself...ardour of his character. He despatched a letter to the first consul, in which he said, " Citizen, First Consul, I do not write to you to discuss the riirhlsof... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1843 - 440 pages
...which he was to grant them such an amnesty. 1 " Paul. attacked in so many different directions. cave way to his enthusiastic temper, and attached himself...discuss the rights of men or citizens ; every country eorerns itself as 1t pleases. Wherever 1 see at the head of a nation a man who knows how to rule and... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - France - 1846 - 616 pages
...orsraoize them in battalions and regiments. This blow struck at once at London and St. Petersburglt. Paul attacked in so many different directions gave...attached himself to France with all the ardour of bis character. He despatched a letter to the first consul, in which he said, " Citizen, First Cousul,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Russia - 1859 - 534 pages
...abandoned the alliance, and with his own hand wrote to Napoleon as follows: " Citizen First Consul,—I do not write to you to discuss the rights of men or of citizens. Every country governs itself as it pleases. Whenever I see, at the head of a nation, a... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Russia - 1860 - 546 pages
...such a deed. He at once abandoned the alliance, and with his own hand wrote to Napoleon as follows : " Citizen First Consul, — I do not write to you to discuss the rights of men or of citizens. Every country governs itself as it pleases. Whenever I see, at the head of a nation, a... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1870 - 422 pages
...under the displeasure of his master, at a distance from hi* family, and abandoned by his friends. 1 [" Paul, attacked in so many different directions, gave...enthusiastic temper, and attached himself to France with sil the ardour of his character. He despatched a letter to Napoleon, in which he said, " Citizen first... | |
 | Pierre Lanfrey - France - 1872 - 632 pages
...with almost incredible cynicism : ' Paul,' he says, ' sent to the First Consul a courier with a letter in which he said, " Citizen First Consul, I do not write to enter inlo a discussion with you on the rights of \ man, or of the citizen ; each country has the form... | |
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Citizen, First Consul, I do not write to you to discuss the rights of men or citizens : every country governs itself as it pleases. Wherever I see at the head of a nation a man who knows how to rule and how to fight, my heart is attracted towards him.... 
