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He himself had served as a stripling in Paoli's militia across the mountains on the great and terrible day of Ponte Nuovo, and by fits and starts, whenever the road allowed our two mules to travel abreast in safety, he told me the story of it, in a dialect of which I understood but one word in three, so different were its harsh aspirates and gutturals from any sounds in the Italian familiar to me.
But, from Paoli's point of view, the acquisition of the island by France was a piece of rank treachery; and his allegiance to France was technically at an end when the king was forcibly dethroned and the Republic was proclaimed. The use of the appellation "traitor" in such a case is merely a piece of childish abuse.
There was in the harbor towns on the eastern slope the same submissive, peace-loving temper as of old; in the west the same fiery, warlike spirit. Corte was the center of Paoli's power, Calvi was the seat of French influence, Bastia was radical, Ajaccio was about equally divided between the younger and older parties, with a strong infusion of official influence.
One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick. BOSWELL. 'Akenside's distinguished poem is his Pleasures of Imagination; but for my part, I never could admire it so much as most people do. JOHNSON. 'Sir, I could not read it through. BOSWELL. 'I have read it through; but I did not find any great power in it. On Tuesday, March 31, he and I dined at General Paoli's.
On April 2nd they order the French commissioners to secure Paoli's person, by whatever means, and bring him to the French capital. At once a cry of indignation goes up from all parts of Corsica; and Buonaparte draws up a declaration, vindicating Paoli's conduct and begging the French Convention to revoke its decree.
The anxiety of his friends to preserve so estimable a life, as long as human means might be supposed to have influence, made them plan for him a retreat from the severity of a British winter, to the mild climate of Italy . This scheme was at last brought to a serious resolution at General Paoli's, where I had often talked of it.
On Thursday, April 11, I dined with him at General Paoli's, in whose house I now resided, and where I had ever afterwards the honour of being entertained with the kindest attention as his constant guest, while I was in London, till I had a house of my own there. I mentioned my having that morning introduced to Mr.
They had a conversation at Paoli's, in which Boswell argued against his present practice. Johnson remarked "that wine gave a man nothing, but only put in motion what had been locked up in frost." It was a key, suggested some one, which opened a box, but the box might be full or empty. "Nay, sir," said Johnson, "conversation is the key, wine is a picklock, which forces open the box and injures it.
Reinstatement Further Solicitation Promotion Napoleon and Elisa Occupations in Paris Return to Ajaccio Disorders in Corsica Buonaparte a French Jacobin Expedition against Sardinia Course of French Affairs Paoli's Changed Attitude Estrangement of Buonaparte and Paoli Mischances in the Preparations against Sardinia Failure of the French Detachment Buonaparte and the Fiasco of the Corsican Detachment His Commission Lapses Further Developments in France Results of French Victory England's Policy Paoli in Danger Denounced and Summoned to Paris.
I can never forgive my father for having been willing to desert the cause of Corsica, and agree to its union with France. He should have followed Paoli's lead, even though it took him with Paoli, into exile in England." "Bah! your father!" one of the big boys standing by exclaimed; "and who is your father, Straw-nose?"
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