The Grand Style

Is it not extremely probable that Bonaparte plagiarised the idea of the centuries observing the French army from the pyramids from these lines of Lucan?— "*Sæcula* Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, *Attendunt, oevumque sequens speculatur* ab omni Orbe ratem."—*Phars.* viii. 622. One of the recent French revolutionists (I think Rollin) compared himself with the victim of Calvary. Even this profane rant is a plagiarism. Gracchus Baboeuf, who headed the extreme republican party against the Directory, exclaimed, on his trial, that his wife, and those of his fellow-conspirators, "should accompany th…