Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte
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The preface to Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte says several of the readers of this little work (first published in 1819) have derived much amusement from the mistakes of others respecting its nature and object. The preface says it has been represented by some as a serious attempt to inculcate universal scepticism, while others have considered it as a jeu d'esprit. The text supposes, for instance, a man who really doubted or disbelieved the existence of Buonaparte, and considered the Egyptian pyramids as fabulous.
The text supposes, again, that such passages as "And it came to pass after these things that Napoleon strengthened himself, and gathered together another host instead of that which he had lost" were found in a history. The text says an Inquirer adds that the Kremlin is a space of several hundred acres, in the heart of the city, in the shape of a flat iron, and is enclosed, by a wall of sixty feet high.
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- Richard Whately
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- 32
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