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When an ex-General of Napoleon is asked his reason for having betrayed the Emperor, he replies, 'La fatigue, and at that a veteran private of the Great Army rushes forward, and crying passionately, 'Et nous? pours out a terrible description of the life lived by the common soldier.
The South African Republic was represented by: Vice-States-President S.W. Burger; Commandant-General Louis Botha; Secretary of State F.W. Reitz; General De la Rey; Ex-General L.J. Meijer; and Mr. J.B. Krogh. Although not a member of the Government, the States-Procureur, L. Jacobsz, was also present.
Pompeius stood towards his former adjutant precisely as after the Gabinio-Manilian laws the latter had stood towards him. Caesar was now the hero of the day and the master of the most powerful Roman army; Pompeius was an ex-general who had once been famous.
When an ex-General of Napoleon is asked his reason for having betrayed the Emperor, he replies, La fatigue, and at that a veteran private of the Great Army rushes forward, and crying passionately, Et nous? pours out a terrible description of the life lived by the commoner soldier.
My name is The Late Barbassou, ex-General and Pasha in the service of His Majesty the Sultan ranks which entitle me to the privileges of a Turkish subject." The commissary smiled and nodded to him, thus indicating that the name of Barbassou-Pasha was already known to him.
Do not ask me any more. Tirobois was then conveyed to the Ministry of War, where he was confronted with a number of persons who were detained in custody. Some of these declared that he was Rossel, but others, the majority, denied that he was the Communist ex-General. About 10 o'clock at night the prisoner was formally questioned as to his history.
Pompeius stood towards his former adjutant precisely as after the Gabinio-Manilian laws the latter had stood towards him. Caesar was now the hero of the day and the master of the most powerful Roman army; Pompeius was an ex-general who had once been famous.
Reported Ben Butler, the ex-general, and now lawyer, of New Orleans, where he attached to himself an infamous notoriety, that will never desert him "The Beast," as Brick Pomeroy, the western wit, calls him pelting his prosy platitudes and muddy language at the New York "rowdies," who responded with a more practical shower, of dead cats, and eggs that had seen their better days: reported Frederick Douglas, the tinted expounder of "advanced Ethiopianism," who regularly tells his audiences of sympathising abolitioners that he had been "bought for three thousand dollars when a slave" a precious deal more than he was worth, to judge by his appearance although, he somehow always forgets to speak of the present price he asks, for his "vote and interest!"
But how little are those modern accomplishments when it comes to the elemental realities of life. A beautiful young countess is employed in a bakery to sell bread, and is lucky. An erstwhile lion and ex-general has a job in a laundry. Pride intervenes only to stop them begging. How few are the beggars! But you see the nicest of girls with pinched white faces trying to sell loukoum.
Being asked if he knew the ex-general Dumouriez, and if he had had relations with him, he said, "On the contrary, I have never seen him."
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