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This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte. These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals....
His biographies of James Watt,Richard Arkwright and Josian Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life.This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle,who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther,Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon ...
Peloponnesian War and the Second World War were very different, and both were unique. But the historiancalls them both wars, and only the pedant will protest. When Gibbon wrote of both the establishment of Christianity by Constantine and the rise of Islam as revolutions, he was generalizing ...
the small town of La Roche-sur-Yon was not only to be renamed for Napoleon, but also extended with a gridded street plan centred on an open square to be lined with public buildings and featuring a large green esplanade, the Place Napoléon. It was both a military emplacement and a city...
—Napoleon凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。——拿破仑 Amancanfailmanytimes，butheisn'tafailureuntilhebeginsto blamesomebodyelse.—Burroughs 一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是 一个失败者。——巴勒斯 Wherethereisawill，thereisaway.—ThomasEdison 有志者，事竟成。——...
The Doge's Palace is impressive on its own, but the Doge's Palace Secret Itineraries Tour in Venice reveals fascinating hidden chambers and passages that tell the real story of how Venice was governed. Accademia Gallery – the world’s greatest collection of Venetian paintings. Napoleon moved ...
Squealer, who is an allegory of the Russian media and more specifically the Soviet Newspaper, would use the animal’s innocent and vulnerable minds, twisting their thoughts and persuading them to believe that Snowball was to blame for all of their hardships while Napoleon had their best interest...
Mixed metaphors can be pretty funny, however; the great Yogi Berra was famous for his “Yogi-isms,” which often contained bewilderingly mixed metaphors that still managed to get his point across: Even Napoleon had his Watergate. But if you’re not trying to be funny, mixed metaphors can co...