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  • The year 1816 was the Augustan age of outrageous negrophilism and equally extreme anti-Napoleonism.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Napoleonism and Liberalism were the same thing in the mind of Alexander, and he finally came to regard serfdom itself as something that should not be touched.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • It has always been a favorite device of Napoleonism to dress itself up in the garb of popular government, and to appropriate the peculiar phrases of democracy, with a view to confound the distinction between the sovereign will of one and the sovereign will of the many.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

  • The Prussians followed the flying French for hours, and had the satisfaction of giving the final blow to Napoleonism for that time.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

  • It was one of the sentimental out-growths of the French Revolution, for which Napoleonism is always the proper remedy.

    Sketches from Concord and Appledore Frank Preston Stearns 1881

  • The ex-préfet Vaublanc, to whom the framing of the measure was entrusted, though he imagined himself purged from the traditions of Napoleonism, could conceive of no relation between the executive and the legislative power but that which exists between a substance and its shadow.

    A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

  • Our instant recognition of the Confederacy would be followed by the pouring through its harbours, whose blockade we should go through as through paper, such armaments as would speedily turn the fortunes of the war, and, aided by the re-invigorated and vengeful Southerns, we should sweep Federalism from the South as we swept Napoleonism from the Peninsula.

    London: Saturday, December 31, 1864 1864

  • Russia was haughty to the new emperor; but the other courts of Europe accepted him, and most of them did so with considerable alacrity; for was he not holding down Socialism and Internationalism, which they dreaded far more than Napoleonism, and by which they were menaced in their own lands?

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • He might have been the true Bourbon and headed the party of the returned _émigrés_, -- in which case his crown would not have stayed long upon his head; or he might have made himself king of the _bourgeoisie_, opposed to revolution, Napoleonism, or disturbances of any kind, -- the party, in short, of the Restoration of Peace: a peace that might outlast his time; _et après moi le déluge!

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • Empire he denounced Napoleonism, and by his eloquence and courage he guided timid millions and rival factions from the day when Napoleon

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

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