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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. 1830. Excerpt: ... dinner toilette, the veteran knight marshalled his divisions, and commanded the expedition, with an earnestness and a gravity.which evidently showed him as much interested in-this predatory warfare upon blooms and odours, as his well disciplined lilt4p troops. Some error, however, in their evolutions, just as the word of command-was given, struck the-General Lafayette himself, who commanded a halt, and suggested the experience of his counsel to the science of the Maltese tactics. It was curious to observe the representative of the Grand Masters of the knights of St John, of Jerusalem, and the General commandant of the national army of FraBce, manceuvering this little nfle corps, and taming powers that had once their influence over the fate o Europe, against corn flewers and May-sweets. I was de-irou- to know how Bonaparte seemed affected al the moment that-General-Lafayette, at the head of the deputation who came to thank him in the name of the chamber, for his voluntary abdication, appeared before him. "We found him," said General Lafayette, "upon this occasion, as upon many others, acting out of the ordinary rules of calculation; neither affecting the pathetic dignity of fallen greatness, nor evincing the uncontrollable dejection of disappointed amhition, of hopes crushed, never to revive, and of splendiHtr quenched, never to rekindle. We found him calm and serene: he received us with a faint but gracious smile; lie spoke with firmness and precision. I think the parallel for this moment was that when he presented his breast to the troops drawn out against him, on his return from Elba, exclaiming, "1 am your Emperor, strike if you will." There have been splendid traits in the life of this man. not to be reconciled to his other modes of conduct: -...
