Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Great Napoleon the Great...
...glorious and sublime facts and figgers of this revolvin' and orbicular planet upon vich the 'uman family at present resides! Hevin' blowed your noses, you will please hobserve the rules of propri-arity. Don't scrouge, nor say "Oh!" and don't breathe on the vinderpanes! SCENE FUST: Napoleon at the Pyramids. - Napoleon may be seen vith the naked eye a sittin' upon his favorite dromedary, and a sayin', "Go 'long, you beast! Forty centuries air a lookin' down on us." In the background you vill notice the Pyramids, vich was builded by the ambitious and notorious kings of Egypt...
...reduced to the stature of ordinary men. He now appears to have been little more than a greedy dare-devil, who was capable of performing his master's bidding with alacrity and thoroughness. But Hildebrand becomes incomparably great. The conception of his character startles us by its novelty. Napoleon believed himself to be the creature of destiny, and claimed only the merit of struggling heroically to take each step in a winding path; but Hildebrand saw the end from the beginning, and provided the means of attaining it with the completeness of an engineer who has to tunnel a mountain...
...Napoleon was a soldier, and he regarded France in the light of a vast army. Thus it happens that we have those barracks that are called colleges, and those half-military uniforms with which the students are afflicted. It is even a subject of gratitude that they were not also obliged to march to recitation to the music of the drum, sword at side and musket on shoulder...
...council is differently constituted, the church element being now represented as well as the laity. Nevertheless, the system itself has undergone no essential change since the year 1808, when Napoleon I. instituted it. Now that we have become acquainted with the organization of the University, and the relation to it of the different branches of public instruction, let us examine the instruction itself, which, as you know, divides itself into three departments, - primary, secondary, and superior instruction. In my next letter I shall speak of the first degree of instruction, - the Primary schools...