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Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Vol. 8: With a Concise History of the Events, That Have Occasioned His Unparalleled Elevation, and a Philosophical Review of His Manners and Policy as a Soldier, a Statesman, and a Sovereign
Such was the debased state of the'pnblic mind at the close of 1808, when Napoleon was on his Journey to Madrid, that the greatest portion of the human race, within the range of his in?uence, were willing to submit to all the violence of his ambition, and to all the freaks of his caprice', nu dcr a persuasion that hisfiat was sufficient to com mand success - his presence alone necessary to command events. The government of Great Britain and the patriots of the Peninsula, by their joint operations, formed the only barrier to uni versal conquest, - possessed the only stock of firm ness and intrepedity from whence a ray of hope could be drawn favourable to the independence of the world.
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