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He was so blinded by passion that he forgot that all actions have their inevitable results. Czartoryski had determined not only to exclude the House of Saxony from the succession, but to dethrone the member of that family who was reigning.
Its substance is that the second Polish war would bring the same renown to French arms as the first, but the peace would be such as should end forever the haughty interference of Russia in European affairs. It seemed to those who heard it as if Russia's hour had struck. Czartoryski: Memoirs. De Chambray: Oeuvres. Ségur: La campagne de Russie.
Important proposals were made by Pitt and our Foreign Minister, the Earl of Harrowby, in a note of June 26th, 1804, in which hopes were expressed that Russia, England, Austria, Sweden, and if possible Prussia, might be drawn together. Alexander and Czartoryski were already debating the advantages of an alliance with England. Their aims were certainly noble.
Later in the day, Napoleon sent his own sword to Alexander, and thus came off easily best from an incident which threatened at first to throw him into the shade. The affair shows the ready wit and mental superiority of the one man no less than the veiled reserve and uneasiness of the other. At the close of 1809, Alexander confessed his inner feeling to Czartoryski.
Their drill, their uniforms, the niceties of military ceremonial, the gorgeous drum-majors twirling their batons or marching in puffy state every detail fascinated the Czar, whose house, said Czartoryski, was affected with the disease of paradomania. NAPOLEON, by Ingres. From nature, during a mass at the Tuileries.
"He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of men the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski.... It is such men as he who decide the fate of nations," added Bolkonski with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace.
He was so blinded by passion that he forgot that all actions have their inevitable results. Czartoryski had determined not only to exclude the House of Saxony from the succession, but to dethrone the member of that family who was reigning.
"The Southern Religious Telegraph" was publishing an impassioned address to Kosciusko; standards were being consecrated for Poland in the larger cities; heroes, like Skrzynecki, Czartoryski, Rozyski, Kaminski, were choking the trump of Fame with their complicated patronymics.
The only present I accepted was a dinner for four persons, which Prince Adam Czartoryski sent me in every day, though the doctor would not let me enjoy it, he being a great believer in diet. The wound in my stomach was progressing favourably, but on the fourth day the surgeons said my hand was becoming gangrened, and they agreed that the only remedy was amputation.
The Czartoryski and the Zamoyski race, both of the Jagellon line, and near kinsmen to the then newly raised monarch to the Polish throne, Stanislaus Poniatowski, appeared like twin stars over the darkened field, and the whole aspect of the country seemed speedily changed.
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