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Reminiscences of Georgetown, D. C: Second Lecture, Delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, Georgetown, D. C., March 9, 1859 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The Creator has been pleased to bestow on man the power of retro spection, while our prospective faculty has been limited for wise pur poses. Burke indeed foretold the end of the French revolution, but the second-sight of that statesman resulted from views founded on the open ing of the tragedy. A person of even common understanding may rea son as to consequences on facts already known, but he will be liable to mistakes in the conclusions at which he arrives. He may reach proba bility, but demonstration escapes his foreknowledge. Napoleon, who was a political prophet in the estimation of many, is said to have predicted the late attempt of Nicholas, the Russian czar, on the dominions of the sultan. This prediction, however, was no proof of sagacity. Attempts had been made on the Crimea by ambitious czars and czarinas long be fore the time Of Bonaparte. Was there, then, anything wonderful in the disclosure made by the exile of St. Helena that some future autocrat of Muscovy might want a winter palace in Constantinople? Enormous am bitiou, without intellect to carry out the designs of that ambition, is the precise niche which Napoleon is to occupy in history. His life was nothing more than a series of puerile blunders, from the moment he shot down Frenchmen in Paris to that in which he ignominiously spurred his steed off the field of Waterloo. This is the view of him which the lec turer has maintained in his animadversions on Abbott, and the one which he is willing to defend against all the admirers of the Corsican.
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The Creator has been pleased to bestow on man the power of retro spection, while our prospective faculty has been limited for wise pur poses. Burke indeed foretold the end of the French revolution, but the second-sight of that statesman resulted from views founded on the open ing of the tragedy. A person of even common understanding may rea son as to consequences on facts already known, but he will be liable to mistakes in the conclusions at which he arrives. He may reach proba bility, but demonstration escapes his foreknowledge. Napoleon, who was a political prophet in the estimation of many, is said to have predicted the late attempt of Nicholas, the Russian czar, on the dominions of the sultan. This prediction, however, was no proof of sagacity. Attempts had been made on the Crimea by ambitious czars and czarinas long be fore the time Of Bonaparte. Was there, then, anything wonderful in the disclosure made by the exile of St. Helena that some future autocrat of Muscovy might want a winter palace in Constantinople? Enormous am bitiou, without intellect to carry out the designs of that ambition, is the precise niche which Napoleon is to occupy in history. His life was nothing more than a series of puerile blunders, from the moment he shot down Frenchmen in Paris to that in which he ignominiously spurred his steed off the field of Waterloo. This is the view of him which the lec turer has maintained in his animadversions on Abbott, and the one which he is willing to defend against all the admirers of the Corsican.
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