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Excerpt from The Growth of British Policy
These qualitiesiare again to be seen, though perhaps not quite to such advantage. M the Short Life of Napoleon the First, 3j published 1n'.1886 This little. Book was expandedifrom an article.on N apoleon.m the, Encyclo paedia Britannica. It is at concise and rapid sketch - not so. Much a biographygo'f the man as a survey of his work in relation to his time. Again, as in the case of Stein, it is rather the setting than the portrait which interests the author. Little is said about Napoleon as a commander 01, as' a man. The thesis defended is that-napoleon as a statesman had no originality. His political ideas are. All traced. Either to the: Revolution or the Ancien Regime.
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