{"product_id":"william-ellery-channing-1827-remarks-on-the-character-of-napoleon-bonaparte","title":"William Ellery Channing, 1827 Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte","description":"\u003cp\u003e[Channing, William Ellery]. \u003cstrong\u003eRemarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte, occasioned by the publication of Scott's Life of Napoleon. From the Christian Examiner, Vol. IV. No. V.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street. Press of the Christian Examiner. Stephen Foster, Printer, 1827. [12578]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTall pamphlet, no wrapper, starts with title page. 9 1\/4 x 5 3\/4 inches, 51 pp., a few contemporary pencil notations in the margins. \"Withdrawn\" library stamp behind the title page. Good. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA review critical of Sir Walter Scott's \u003cem\u003eLife of Napoleon Bonaparte.\u003c\/em\u003e Channing criticizes both the book itself, and Bonaparte in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The marks of negligence and haste, which are spread through the work, are serious blemishes, perhaps inexpiable defects.\" - p. [3].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"But still we should be strangely blind, if we were not to feel that the fall of Napoleon was a blessing to the world. Who can look, for example, at France, and not see there a degree of freedom which could never have grown up under the terrible frown of the usurper?\" - p. 44.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChanning compares Bonaparte with Washington, and says that while Bonaparte was a greater thinker and more skilled at making war, Washington was the nobler man, one whom his country never distrusted, one without guile or deceit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttributed to William Ellery Channing at WorldCat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Ellery Channing, D.D. (1780-1842), born at Newport, Rhode Island, “an eminent Unitarian divine and philanthropist…To the American community in general Channing is chiefly known as a theologian, while on the other side of the Atlantic his fame is chiefly that of a literary man and a philanthropist.” – M’Clintock \u0026amp; Strong.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haaswurth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45910093463618,"sku":"ABE12578","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0191\/6066\/2082\/files\/DSC09473BackgroundRemoved.png?v=1794000811","url":"https:\/\/www.haaswurth.com\/products\/william-ellery-channing-1827-remarks-on-the-character-of-napoleon-bonaparte","provider":"Haaswurth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}