 | John Smythe Memes - 1831 - 406 Seiten
...of the engagement, concluded with the following words: — " On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition...would now be a blessing — but I would once more see Josephine.' " All uncertainty at length vanished on receipt of the following letter, and Josephine... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1831 - 396 Seiten
...of the engagement, cencluded with the following words : — " On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition...would now be a blessing — but I would once more see Josephine.' " All uncertainty at length vanished on receipt of the following letter, and Josephine... | |
 | John Smythe Memes - 1835 - 408 Seiten
...of the engagement, concluded with the following words : — "On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition...several times said in my own mind, ' I have sought 1o meet death in many conflicts — I can no longer fear it ; to me, death would now be a blessing... | |
 | John Smythe Memes - 1835 - 416 Seiten
...of the engagement, concluded with the following words : — " On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition....the agitation and terrors which I now experience, 1 several times said in my own mind, ' I have sought to meet death in many conflicts — I can no longer... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1848 - 326 Seiten
...became more affectionate than ever. In the last he wrote before the conflict terminated, he said, " I have sought to meet death in many conflicts. I can...would now be a blessing. But I would once more see Josephine." Though from motives of delicacy he had never seen her alone since her divorce, he had availed... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1854 - 884 Seiten
...numbers. It was concluded in the following affecting word» : " On beholding these scenes, where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition...would now be a blessing. But I would once more see Josephine.' " There was an incessant battle raging for a circuit of many miles around the metropolis.... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French), John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1856 - 416 Seiten
...where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition then with thc agitation and terrors I now experience, I several times said, in my own...would now be a blessing, but I would once more see Josephine.' " LETTER XI. JOSEPHINE TO HORTENSE AT RAMBOVILLET. NAVAERE, March 31, 1814. I have been... | |
 | 1863 - 858 Seiten
...deeply wronged. When all was lost he wrote again to her, closing his letter with these affecting words: "I have sought to meet death in many conflicts; I can no longer fear it. To me death would be a blessing. But I would once more see Josephine." Napoleon was banished to Elba. His victors treated... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1866 - 410 Seiten
...of the engagement, concluded with the following words : — " On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition...would now be a blessing — but I would once more see Josephine.' " LETTER OF NAPOLEON. 367 All uncertainty at length vanished on receipt of the following... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1870 - 426 Seiten
...following words : — " On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing ray peaceful condition then with the agitation and terrors...would now be a blessing — but I would once more see Josephine,' " LETTER OP NAPOLEON. 367 All uncertainty at length vanished on receipt of the following... | |
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On beholding those scenes where I had passed my boyhood, and comparing my peaceful condition then with the agitation and terrors which I now experience, I several times said in my own mind, ' I have sought to meet death in many conflicts — I can no... 
