Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 / 2008-07-31 00:00:00

EBOOK THE SECOND FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON ***


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THE SECOND FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON
by William Makepeace Thackeray
AKA Michael Angelo Titmarch.

I. On the Disinterment of Napoleon at St. Helena
II. On the Voyage from St. Helena to Paris
III. On the Funeral Ceremony


I.--ON THE DISINTERMENT OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA.

MY DEAR ----,--It is no en the Voyage from St. Helena asy task in this
world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and
many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the
works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud
up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to
imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whether
I should fling aside the book and the hero of it, as things altogether
base, unworthy, laughable, and get a novel, or a game of billiards, or
a pipe of tobacco, or the report of the last debate in the House, or any
other employment which would leave the mind in a state of easy vacuity,
rather than pester it with a vain set of dates relating to actions which
are in themselves not worth a fig, or with a parcel of names of people
whom it can do one no earthly good to remember.
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