 | 1881 - 792 páginas
...Death has a way of its own of harassing victory ; and it causes pestilence to follow glory." " Had it not rained on the night between the 17th and 18th...Europe would have been changed. A few drops of rain at the battle of Waterloo made Napoleon waver." t "In battle the soul hardens, changing the Eoldier... | |
 | 1862 - 628 páginas
...faire une victoire ! ' 'If it had not rained,' says M. Victor Hugo, ' on the night of the 17th to the 18th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water more or less caused the fall of Napoleon. In order that Waterloo should have had the termination... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 1862 - 626 páginas
...commencement of the action narrated in the first part of this book. Had it not rained on the night of the 17th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water more or less prostrated Napoleon. That Waterloo should be the end of Austerlitz, Providence needed... | |
 | 1862 - 1008 páginas
...for a more general view of the hattle, M. Hugo remarks: "If it had not niii,ed in the night hetween the 17th and 18th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have heen changed. Some drops of wattr more or less caused Napoleon to full. In order that Waterloo might... | |
 | 1863 - 990 páginas
...powers of an other conjunction, by declaring, " IF it had not rained on the night of the 17th to the 18th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water, more or less, caused the fall of Napoleon." In a similar strain does Dr. Manning qualify the... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1863 - 338 páginas
...in his charming work " Les Miserables," — " If it had not rained on the night of the 17th to the 18th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water, more or less, caused the fall of Napoleon." There is a good deal made to depend upon this little... | |
 | John Kitto - 1865 - 532 páginas
...says M. Victor Hugo, in his Les M'tserables, " If it had not rained on the night of the 17th to the 18th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water, more or less, caused the fall of Napoleon." Between the times of Thothmes III. and Rameses II.... | |
 | John Kitto - 1865 - 534 páginas
...says M. Victor Hugo, in his Les Mlserables, " If it had not rained on the night of the 17th to the 18th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water, more or less, caused the fall of Napoleon." Between the times of Thothmes III. and Rameses II.... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 páginas
...of martial poems. LXXXVII.— THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 1. Had it not rained on the night of the 17th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water, more or less, prostrated Napoleon. That Waterloo should be the end of Austerlitz, Providence... | |
 | Coleman E. Bishop - 1883 - 384 páginas
...from Victor Hugo's " Les Miserables."] IF it had not rained on the night between the iyth and i8th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been...: a few drops of rain, more or less, made Napoleon oscillate. In order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz, Providence only required a little rain,... | |
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Had it not rained on the night of the 17th of June, 1815, the future of Europe would have been changed. A few drops of water more or less prostrated Napoleon. That Waterloo should be the end of Austerlitz, Providence needed only a little rain, and an... 
