any views in this country, they would probably be parliamentary
.
But I have no ambition; at least, if any, it would be
aut Cæsar aut nihil
. My hopes are limited to the arrangement of my affairs, and settling either in Italy or the East (rather the last), and drinking deep of the languages and literature of both. Past events have unnerved me; and all I can now do is to make life an amusement, and look on while others play. After all, even the highest game of crowns and sceptres, what is it?
Vide
Napoleon's last twelvemonth. It has completely upset my system of fatalism. I
, if crushed, he would have fallen, when