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    Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte
    Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte
    Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte
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    Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte

    By Richard Whately and Isaac Mclellan

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    Richard Whately (1787–1863) was an English rhetorician, academic, logician, philosopher, theologian, and economist. Written when he lived in Oxford, his tract “Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte” is a witty jeu d'ésprit aimed at excessive scepticism of Gospel history. First published in 1819, this book is highly recommended for those with an interest in Napoleon Buonaparte and European history in general. Contents include: “The Death of Napoleon, by Isaac Mclellan”, “Preface to Later Edition”, “Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte”, “Postscript to the Third Edition”, “Postscript to the Seventh Edition”, “Postscript to the Ninth Edition”, “Postscript to the Eleventh Edition”, “Postscript to the Twelfth Edition”, and “Footnotes in the Original”. Other notable works by this author include: “Thoughts on the Sabbath” (1832), “Charges and Tracts” (1836), and “Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith” (1839). Read & Co. Books is proudly republishing this collection work now in a new edition complete with an introductory poem by Isaac Mclellan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead & Co. Books
    Release dateMay 6, 2021
    ISBN9781528792455
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      Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte - Richard Whately

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      Historic Doubts

      Relative to

      Napoleon Buonaparte

      By

      RICHARD WHATELY

      WITH AN

      INTRODUCTORY POEM

      BY ISAAC MCLELLAN

      First published in 1819

      Copyright © 2021 Read & Co. Books

      This edition is published by Read & Co. Books,

      an imprint of Read & Co.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

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      Contents

      THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON

      By Isaac Mclellan

      PREFACE TO LATER EDITION

      AUTHOR'S FOOTNOTES:

      HISTORIC DOUBTS RELATIVE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE

      POSTSCRIPT TO THE THIRD EDITION

      POSTSCRIPT TO THE SEVENTH EDITION

      POSTSCRIPT TO THE NINTH EDITION

      POSTSCRIPT TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION

      POSTSCRIPT TO THE TWELFTH EDITION

      FOOTNOTES IN THE ORIGINAL:

      THE DEATH

      OF NAPOLEON

      By Isaac Mclellan

      Wild was the night, yet a wilder night

      Hung round the soldier's pillow;

      In his bosom there waged a fiercer fight

      Than the fight on the wrathful billow.

      A few fond mourners were kneeling by,

      The few that his stern heart cherished;

      They knew, by his glazed and unearthly eye,

      That life had nearly perished.

      They knew by his awful and kingly look,

      By the order hastily spoken,

      That he dreamed of days when the nations shook,

      And the nations' hosts were broken.

      He dreamed that the Frenchman's sword still slew,

      And triumphed the Frenchman's eagle,

      And the struggling Austrian fled anew,

      Like the hare before the beagle.

      The bearded Russian he scourged again,

      The Prussian's camp was routed,

      And again on the hills of haughty Spain

      His mighty armies shouted.

      Over Egypt's sands, over Alpine snows,

      At the pyramids, at the mountain,

      Where the wave of the lordly Danube flows,

      And by the Italian fountain,

      On the snowy cliffs where mountain streams

      Dash by the Switzer's dwelling,

      He led again, in his dying dreams,

      His hosts, the proud earth quelling.

      Again Marengo's field was won,

      And Jena's bloody battle;

      Again the world was overrun,

      Made pale at his cannon's rattle.

      He died at the close of that darksome day,

      A day that shall live in story;

      In the rocky land they placed his clay,

      And left him alone with his glory."

      A poem from

      Poems That Every Child Should Know, 1904

      PREFACE TO

      LATER EDITION

      Several of the readers of this little work (first published in 1819) have derived much amusement from the mistakes of others respecting its nature and object. It has been by some represented as a serious attempt to inculcate universal scepticism; while others have considered it as a jeu d'esprit, &c.[1] The author does not, however, design to entertain his readers with accounts of the mistakes which, have arisen respecting it; because many of them, he is convinced, would be received with incredulity; and he could not, without an indelicate exposure of individuals, verify his anecdotes.

      But some sensible readers have complained of the difficulty of determining what they are to believe. Of the existence of Buonaparte, indeed, they remained fully convinced; nor, if it were left doubtful, would any important results ensue; but if they can give no satisfactory reason for their conviction, how can they know, it is asked, that they may not be mistaken as to other points of greater consequence, on which they are no less fully convinced, but on which all men are not agreed? The author has accordingly been solicited to endeavour to frame some canons which may furnish a standard for determining what evidence is to be received.

      This he conceives to be impracticable, except to that extent to which it is accomplished by a sound system of Logic; including under that title, a portion—that which relates to the Laws of Evidence—of what is sometimes treated under the head of Rhetoric. But the full and complete accomplishment of such an object would confer on Man the unattainable attribute of infallibility.

      But the difficulty complained of, he conceives to arise, in many instances, from men's mis-stating the grounds of their own conviction. They are convinced, indeed, and perhaps with very sufficient reason; but they imagine this reason to be a different one from what it is. The evidence to which they have assented is applied to their minds in a different manner from that in which they believe that it is—and suppose that it ought to be—applied. And when challenged to defend and justify their own belief, they feel at a loss, because they are attempting to maintain a position which is not, in fact, that in which their force lies.

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