Author: Alexandre Dumas

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781332601066

Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6 This great movement was in no sense planned or carried out by him. He foresaw it, but never sought to help it forward, and there was no we when it would have been possible for him to check it. He was not one of those men who devote their whole lives to the service of a cause, and all that he did was done to acquire and augment a power of which he was at once the architect and the beneficiary. He never could see anything but himself in the whole universe, he loved none but himself, and worked for none but himself. He bore in his heart the seed of all the passions, and devoted his whole life to their development and gratification. His character is sufficiently described in that statement and his actions were simply the natural consequences of his character try ing conclusions with circumstances. Few men have been more thoroughly consistent, or better suited to the atmos phere in which they lived; and as a personality is the more striking, the more completely it sums up in iwelf the ideas and morals of the time and country in which its possessor lived, the figure of ali-pacha is certainly one of the most interesting if not of the most brilliant in contemporary history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.