The mother-land of science and learning, after a wellnigh barren interval of 1,100 years since the Arab conquest, was now developed and illumined by the application of the arts with which in the dim past she had enriched the life of barbarous Europe.

The repayment of this incalculable debt was due primarily to the enterprise of Bonaparte.

It is one of his many titles to fame and to the homage of posterity.

How poor by the side of this encyclopaedic genius are the gifts even of his most brilliant foes! At that same time the Archduke Charles of Austria was vegetating in inglorious ease on his estates.

As for Beaulieu and Wuermser, they had subsided into their native obscurity.
Nelson, after his recent triumph, persuading himself that "Bonaparte had gone to the devil," was bending before the whims of a professional beauty and the odious despotism of the worst Court in Europe.