Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte

Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (1874)
by Richard Whately

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Written in 1819, while Napoleon Bonaparte was still alive, this piece of satire suggests that his existence is simply a hoax, based on muddled legends, contradictory accounts of battles, and a habit of assuming every shadowy figure in the distance with a distinctive hat must be the Emperor.

This transcription is of a much later edition of 1874.

125165Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte1874Richard Whately

HISTORIC DOUBTS

RELATIVE TO

NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.

Is not the same reason available in theology and in politics? . . . . . Will you follow truth but to a certain point? Burke's Vindication of Natural Society.

The first author who stated fairly the connection between the evidence of testimony and the evidence of experience, was Hume, in his Essay on Miracles; a work abounding in maxims of great use in the conduct of life.—Edinburgh Rev. Sept. 1814.

FROM THE ELEVENTH LONDON EDITION.

ANDOVER:
WARREN F. DRAPER,
MAIN STREET.
1874.

ANDOVER:
STEREOTYPED BY WARREN F. DRAPER.

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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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