Embassy To The Court Of St. James In 1840 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) - Hardcover

Guizot, F.

9780365246299: Embassy To The Court Of St. James In 1840 (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0365246298 ISBN 13: 9780365246299

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Embassy To The Court Of St. James In 1840

During this early tide of introductions and visits, I chanced not to meet the foremost of the leading men of England - the Duke of Wellington. He was absent from London. When I first saw him, his aspect sur prised me I found him aged, thin, shrunken and bent, much beyond what his years demanded. He looked with those dimmed and vacant eyes in which the soul, ready to depart, seems no longer to take the trouble of showing itself; he spoke with the short and wavering utterance, the feebleness of which resembles the emo tion of a last adieu. But once entering into conversation, all his firm and accurate intellect still manifested itself, though with labour, and sustained by the energy of his will. He apologized for not having yet called upon me, according to custom. I was in the country, he said I require the country. The physical decline was striking when associated with the moral vigour and public importance still unimpaired.

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