. Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources. it which bereached and overawed by the English navy; and herewas a woman, then of no great fortune or cel(,brity,receiving every evening a circle of friends in a modestdrawing-room at Paris. They were antagonists, thosetwo ! Both were foreigners—he an Italian-Corsican^ shea Swiss. Tlie man was dazzling and intoxicating France,while using her for purposes of his own. The womanwould not
. Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources. it which bereached and overawed by the English navy; and herewas a woman, then of no great fortune or cel(,brity,receiving every evening a circle of friends in a modestdrawing-room at Paris. They were antagonists, thosetwo ! Both were foreigners—he an Italian-Corsican^ shea Swiss. Tlie man was dazzling and intoxicating France,while using her for purposes of his own. The womanwould not be dazzled. In a city delirious slie kept herseuses. In a company drunk, she remained a people dreaming, she was awake. And, giftedas she was by nature with an excellent mind, a humaneheart, and an eloquent tongue, she had power to wakeiLand restore other minds. Our English-speaking world will never see and vividlyfeel the turpitude of this man Bonaparte, as Madame DeStael saw and felt it, until his lying bulletins and brutaldespatches are translated into our language. I havespent many hours and days in examining them, for theynumber thirty thousand, and fill thirty-two compact (202).
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