France in Eighteen Hundred And Two Described in a Series of Contemporary Letter
The book France in Eighteen Hundred And Two Described in a Series of Contemporary Letter was written by author Yorke, Henry Redhead, 1772-1813 Here you can read free online of France in Eighteen Hundred And Two Described in a Series of Contemporary Letter book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is France in Eighteen Hundred And Two Described in a Series of Contemporary Letter a good or bad book?
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" He was offered ^3000 sterling for those models, but has refused it. He intends to dispose of them to the American Government. The iron bars, I noticed in the corner of his room, are also forged by himself, and as the model of a new description of crane. He put them together and exhibited to me the power of a lever in a surprising degree. It would require the leisure and the memory of James Boswell himself to relate in detail the conversations I had while in Paris with Thomas Paine, or the opi...nions and anecdotes he recounted. I shall therefore only conclude this account of him with a few words, respecting his acquaintance with Bonaparte. When the hero of Italy had returned to Paris, in order to take the command of that " Army of England " (whose left wing he afterwards conducted to the burning sands of Egypt instead of the Valley of Thames) he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner. In the course of his rapturous ecstasies, he declared that a statue of gold ought to be erected to him in every city in the universe; he also assured Paine that he (Bona- BONAPARTE AND PAINE 241 parte) always slept with a copy of the " Rights of Man " under his pillow, and conjured him to honour him with his counsel and advice.
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