Excerpt from History of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 8: And of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire, With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress
There was at that time, as we ourselves can testify from experi ence, no need of secret societies in order to separate the patriots from the mere official men of public life, the abhorrence felt for those cowards, traitors, and selfish men who had betrayed, and stil...
Excerpt from History of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 7: And of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire, With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress
The treatment of the history of Italy has necessarily been reserved for this volume, not merely because there was only room in the preceding one for an outline of Bonaparte's military undertakings, but because the changes which this general effected are intimately c...
