1 Wellington is classic war taking its revenge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 2 Its sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 3 This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 4 Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 5 A debasing war, in short, in which the Bank of France could be read in the folds of the flag.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 6 The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which attracts and engages a crowd.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 7 We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion presents itself, we tell the truth about it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 8 Wellington was the Bareme of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 9 From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 10 A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 11 From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit of France, enraged the democratic spirit.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 12 One day, that man who believed himself to be a "philosopher," the senator who has already been alluded to, said to the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against all; the strongest has the most wit."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 13 And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy which is called a war vessel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 14 Every time that immense force is displayed to culminate in an immense feebleness it affords men food for thought, Hence in the ports curious people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 15 It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 16 Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadero, among others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about accepting this false triumph.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 17 This punic labor, incontestably authorized by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe.
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