exclaimed he ; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ? They ought to have blown four or five hundred of them into the air with cannon ; the rest would then have taken to their ' — DE BOUKKIENNE, tip 49.] Miscellanies - Page 222by J. T. Headley - 1850 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 1196 pages
...Bonaparte's indignation burst forth uncontrolled. " What madness !" exclaimed he alond, and in h is patois, u how could they allow these scoundrels to enter! they ought to have blown four or tive hundred of them into the air with cannon ; the rest would then have taken to their heels." While... | |
| Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - France - 1830 - 374 pages
...Bonaparte's indignation burst forth uncontrolled. " What madness !" exclaimed he aloud, and in his patois, " how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ! they...; the rest would then have taken to their heels." While at dinner together — for which, by the way, I paid, as was pretty generally the case, happening... | |
| Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 430 pages
...his head, Buonaparte could no longer restrain his indignation. ' What madness ! ' exclaimed he ; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ? They...with cannon ; the rest would then have taken to their ' — DE BOUKKIENNE, tip 49.] " poor and virtuous people," as Robespierre used to call them, with an... | |
| Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 430 pages
...his head, Buonaparte could no longer restrain his indignation. ' What madness ! ' exclaimed he ; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ? They...with cannon ; the rest would then have taken to their lleiils.'" 1)1. BOUHXIENNE, tip 49.] " poor and virtuous people," as Robespierre used to call them,... | |
| Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 pages
...on his head, Bonaparte could no longer restrain his indignation. ' What madness !' exclaimed he ; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to enter? They...cannon. The rest would then have taken to their heels.'" — Bourrienne't Memoirs. E. alarming manner. The national grenadiers, who had surrounded the princess,... | |
| Adolphe Thiers - France - 1838 - 454 pages
...placed on his head, Bonaparte could no longer restrain his indignation. ' What madness!' exclaimed he ; 'how could they allow these scoundrels to enter? They...cannon. The rest would then have taken to their heels.'" — Bourrienne's Memoirs. E. t* r' I alarming manner. The national grenadiers, who had surrounded the... | |
| George Moir Bussey - France - 1840 - 664 pages
...exclaimed aloud, with emphatic scorn, " What imbecility, to allow the scoundrels to enter ! They should have blown four or five hundred of them into the air with the cannon, and the rest would have taken to their heels." This ebullition must probably be regarded... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - France - 1843 - 406 pages
...as his own, he expressed the highest dissatisfaction with the recent events at Paris, claimed he ; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ? They...; the rest would then have taken to their heels.' "-DE BOURRIENNE, torn, i., p. 49. ' " By eight o'clock in the evening they had all departed, and silence... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...unbounded. " What madness ! " exclaimed Bonaparte — for he was that young and then unknown officer — " how could they allow these scoundrels to enter ! They...cannon. The rest would then have taken to their heels." It was not long, as we shall see in the sequel, before he had occasion to put his principles in practice... | |
| Louis Adolphe Thiers - France - 1845 - 470 pages
...his indignation. ' What madness !' exclaimed he; ' how could they allow these scoundrels to entert They ought to have blown four or five hundred of them...cannon. The rest would then have taken to their heels.' " " Bourriennt't Memoirs. E. the agitation there was increased by the indignation of the right side,... | |
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