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Excerpt from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
Under French domina tion, on the 1sth day of August, 1769. Had he been born two months earlier, we are told, he would have been an Italian. Had he been born a hun dred years later, it is difficult to say what he would have been. As it was, he was born a Frenchman. It is not pleasant to contem plate what the man's future would have been had he been born an Italian, nor is it easy to picture that future with any confi dence born of certainty. Since the days Of Caesar, Italy had not produced any great military commander, and it is not likely that the powers would have changed their scheme, confirmed by sixteen centuries Of Observance, in Napoleon's behalf - a fact which Napoleon himself realized, for he Often said in his latter days, with a Shudder: I hate to think how inglorious I should have become had been born two months earlier and entered the world as an Italian. I should have been anoth.
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