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. 1861 Excerpt: ...a stricter line is instantly kept by the officers in the gallery. Fair feces, many an English one among them, are flushed. Anon he appears, whilst an officer at the door, with one hand raised above his head and the other extended, exclaims, ' Le Premier CmisuV Forth he walks, a firm, short, stolid form, with falling ...
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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. 1861 Excerpt: ...a stricter line is instantly kept by the officers in the gallery. Fair feces, many an English one among them, are flushed. Anon he appears, whilst an officer at the door, with one hand raised above his head and the other extended, exclaims, ' Le Premier CmisuV 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 in 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, modelled 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 face is pale, almost sallow, while--let one speak who beheld him--' not only in the eye, but in every feature, care, thought, melancholy, and meditation are 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 battle-field, the ruler of assemblies; and, as if to perfect the contrast, whilst all around is gorgeous and blazing, 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 so...
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Add this copy of The Queens of Society, by Grace and Philip Wharton to cart. $47.66, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2018 by HardPress Ltd.
