Meissonier, his life and his art . . . The ruling pas-sion of his whole life was hishatred of England. If he hadbeen a sailor, and equipped fornaval war, he would have de-lighted in hunting the Englishon their native element. Thatnot being possible, he warredagainst Russia and Prussia,and declared the ContinentalBlockade ... to strike ablow at England. . Wouldnot any surgeon, even themost skilful, desire to removeall sickness, and pain, andneed for surgical operations,from the face of the earth,if that were possible ?—wouldhe, if an interesting casecame under his hand, operatefor the pure love
Meissonier, his life and his art . . . The ruling pas-sion of his whole life was hishatred of England. If he hadbeen a sailor, and equipped fornaval war, he would have de-lighted in hunting the Englishon their native element. Thatnot being possible, he warredagainst Russia and Prussia,and declared the ContinentalBlockade ... to strike ablow at England. . Wouldnot any surgeon, even themost skilful, desire to removeall sickness, and pain, andneed for surgical operations,from the face of the earth,if that were possible ?—wouldhe, if an interesting casecame under his hand, operatefor the pure love of the art, when he might have saved thepatient without using the knife ? . . I believe Napoleon was quitesincere when he talked of his dream of travelling through a pacifiedcontinent of Europe. ... I believe, too, that he would never havedreamt of divorce, if Josephine had given him children. But hewas too new a man to adopt an heir presumptive. . TheCure was wrong to say in his sermon, last Sunday, that Napoleon. NAFOLEON. (Sketch.) MAN- 135 had been the destroyer of the Church. Was it not he who re-opened her doors ? Did lie not show how strong he felt herpower to be, by seeking to obtain her acquiescence in the neworder of things ? . . How the Emperor proved his instinctiveknowledge of the situation, present and future, when he set his titleof Protector of the Rhine Confederation above all his otherhonours ; he felt the North threatened us, even then, and desired toguard the boundary of France, at all costs, by a confederation ofwhich he himself was head. Mencast at him, as a reproach, that hesent his eagles into the four cornersof the sky, that he gave thrones toall his brothers. . What is morenatural, and more rational, after all,than to trust ones own kin ? . . Some historians, nowadays, denythe Emperor all political what feeling he showed, both forpolitical construction, and for the dis-tant future. . It is the fashionnow, and has been for years, to pickth
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