 | 1825 - 600 էջ
...they would, I am afraid, be ordered from the shores of the ' Main, and sent adrift,' &c. Again : — 'Bolivar would willingly ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte in South America, without possessing a single talent for the duties of the field or the cabinet.... | |
 | Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein - 1830 - 324 էջ
...already cited, says, p. 464, Bolivar would ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte, in South America, without possessing a single talent for the duties of the field or * See Chapter XII. the cabinet. He would be King of New Grenada and Venezuela, without genius to command,... | |
 | John Whetham Boddam-Whetham - 1879 - 388 էջ
...in South America," says : — " Bolivar would ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte in South America, without possessing a single talent for the duties of the field or the cabinet He has neither talents nor abilities for a general, and especially for a commander-in-chief. . . . Tactics,... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - 1910 - 512 էջ
...War of Independence, does not give such a flattering estimate of the Liberator. "Bolivar," he writes, "would willingly ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte in South America, without possessing a single talent for the duties of the field or the cabinet.... | |
 | Christon I. Archer - 2000 - 352 էջ
...already cited, says, p. 464, "Bolivar would ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte, in South America, without possessing a single talent...the field or the cabinet. He would be King of New Granada and Venezuela, without genius to command, consequence to secure, or abilities to support, the... | |
 | Richard W. Slatta, Jane Lucas De Grummond - 2003 - 380 էջ
...critical Colonel Hippisley agreed. "Bolivar would ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte, in South America, without possessing a single talent for the duties of the field or the cabinet." Both appraisals are unduly negative, but no one can deny that both Bonaparte and Bolivar pursued their... | |
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Bolivar would ape the great man. He aspires to be a second Bonaparte, in South America, without possessing a single talent for the duties of the field or the cabinet. 