Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . e was the master of the French Republic. Bonaparte was a short man, at this time extremely thin, buthis striking features, quick, searching eye, abrupt, animatedgestures and rapid speech, incorrect as it was, made a deepimpression upon those who came in contact with him. Hepossessed in a supreme degree two qualities that are ordinarilyincompatible. He was a dreamer, and at the same time aman whose practical skill and mastery of detail amounted togenius. He
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . e was the master of the French Republic. Bonaparte was a short man, at this time extremely thin, buthis striking features, quick, searching eye, abrupt, animatedgestures and rapid speech, incorrect as it was, made a deepimpression upon those who came in contact with him. Hepossessed in a supreme degree two qualities that are ordinarilyincompatible. He was a dreamer, and at the same time aman whose practical skill and mastery of detail amounted togenius. He once told a friend that he was wont, when a poorlieutenant, to allow his imagination full play and fancy thingsjust as he would have them. Then he would coolly considerthe exact steps to be taken if he were to try to make his dreamcome true. At the age of twenty-eight he had become thechief general of France; at that of thirty he was to becomemaster of the country. In order to explain Bonapartes success it must be remem-bered that he was not hampered or held back by the fear ofdoing wrong. He was utterly unscrupulous, whether deaimg. Napoleon I
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