Excerpt from The History of Europe: From the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802, to the Pacification of Paris, in 1815
A General Survey of the Politics of Europe, front the Peace of the Year 1802, to the Renewal of Hostilities be-tween Great Britain and France,.
The treaty of Amiens might have had a prosperous and permanent detect, if the ruler of the French nation, upon whose conduct the destiny of Europe seemed to depend, had possessed the common attributes of human nature. It might have been reasonably expected that an adventurer, whose original condition gave him no hopes of rising above the middle class of society, would have been content with that splendour of fortune to which bis courage and talents had raised him, without aspiring to higher degrees of distinction and preeminence. It might have been concluded, that he would have studiously cultivated the arts of peace, and would have given a long repose to a people who had so severely suffered by revolutionary fury; and that, under his auspices, the labours of honest industry, the activity of commerce, the pursuits of literature and science, would have completely triumphed over die vulgar, degrading, and mischievous passion for military glory.
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