Excerpt from The Spirit of the Book, Vol. 3 of 3: Or Memoirs of Caroline Princess of a Political and Amatory in Three VolumesPoliticians, however, as the party were, it required but little penetration in me to discover their ignorance on many subjects of foreign polity, and more particularly their complete mis conception of the character and capa city of Buonaparte. The eciait of his name, and the rapidity of his victories, made so forcible an impression on the minds of some of the party, that no thing would satisfy them but to elevate him above Alexander the Great, while others, from the reported tyranny of his nature, and the principles, or cause they themselves espoused, could scarce ly find words to sink his estimation, or to exhibit him in colours sufficiently infamous and black.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.