 ... interests with too much heartiness, to live an hour for what Napoleon always lived, — to make itself the theme and gaze and wonder of a dazzled world. Next to moral comes intellectual greatness, or genius in the highest sense of that word; and by...  The Fine arts' journal - Page 931847Full view - About this book
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