Show bonaparte as A slate small tle the battle of was fought on december 4 1805 early in 1806 1800 peace was mado by the treaty of 0 Pre freeburg eburg anti ami napoleon returned 1 to 0 paris to occupy himself in bonso conso consolidating 1 himself with his influence in germany by founding tho the confederation of th the e rhine it was ot at thi this time tima in the year he bo was in the zol zenith lilb or about the zenith of lis his fortunes that the tha portrait by longhi was taken the bausis face i certainly handsome handsome s there is ia great refinement in the features and every avery indication of intellectual power thi remark able tiling thing it is that it does not in the least suggest a warrior it is ia hard to imag itie that it is a portrait of napoleon drawn iu in tho the brief pr per iod which intervened between austerlitz us and jena it is how however evor a mistake to napoleon as only chiefly chi elly a soldier Bol dier oreal great as he certainly was in the abo field lie was equally great in the cabinet no man 0 of his day ay took hold of the work of government with anything approach mg ing the energy or capacity displayed by him no BO man of any day has ever ur passed him roads colleges schools civil as ad well as military all received his bis attention reforms of ad ministration anil and of taxation nil all the manifold tasks of government were approached in an enlightened spirit with the clear good sense of a man of a aal feairs aira and with an entire absence of the prejudices so characteristic of this ibia period above all his code at which he employed the best lawyers of the day and which ho be pushed through to completion in the combar actively brief period of four years from its inception feeling its as he did a thorough conviction of its prime necessity ces cos sity in casting into the form of law the groat great practical reforms which had bad been brought in by the revolution this work stamps him as being beyond question thu the most sound and practical statesman of his time so BO far as the internal management of his hia country was wag concerned in all this abis however there was no philanthropy strict strictly so BO called na 1 if was only a ra anler or possessed of great power laving a comprehensive and clear mindfully acquainted with the needs of the public publia service ad dressing himself to all the tasks of especially to the task of improving the condition of the populations over which he be pled with an energy assiduity and intelligence rarely it tt ever seen before he was no not i a p philanthropist lot let us ua he was probably a groat great deal better ruler than it if he lad had been a philanthropist no sentiment ever disturb oil ed his bis vision or turned him bim aside from carrigg carrying out what he deemed to bo be a desirable esi rable reform scribners magazina for juno |