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DELIVERAXCE FitOM THE<br />

CORSICAN.<br />

And, in fact, against Napoleon none<br />

could help but God Himself. No reliance<br />

could be placed on the earthly<br />

legions; hence all eyes were religiously<br />

turned to Heaven.<br />

MADAME DE STAEL'S PERSONAL APPEAR­<br />

ANCE.<br />

I by no means intend to insinuate<br />

that Madame de Stael was ugly; but<br />

beauty is something quite different<br />

. . . I am told that she really had<br />

very pretty hands and beautiful arms,<br />

which she always displayed. Surely<br />

the Venus of ]\Iilo could not show such<br />

beautiful arms ! Her teeth surpassed<br />

in whiteness those of the finest steed of<br />

Araby, She had very large, beautiful<br />

eyes, a dozen amorets would have found<br />

room on her lips, and her smile is said<br />

to have been very sweet: therefore she<br />

could not have been ugly, — no woman<br />

is ugly. But I venture to say that had<br />

fair Helen of Sparta looked so, the<br />

Trojan A\'ar would not have occurred,<br />

and the strongholds of Priam would not<br />

have IxM'ii burned, and Homer would<br />

never have sung the wrath of Pelidean<br />

Achilles,

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