See him fight, negotiate, decree, punish, all is the matter of a moment.

He compromises with Turin as with Rome.

He invades Modena as he burns Binasco.

He never hesitates; to cut the Gordian knot is always his method.
Bonaparte could not endure to have his conduct predicated; and enraged at seeing his campaigns depreciated, his glory and that of his army disparaged, -- [The extraordinary folly of the opposition to the Directory in throwing Bonaparte on to the side of the Directory, will be seen by reading the speech of Dumolard, so often referred to by Bourrienne (Thiers, vol.v.pp.

110-111), and by the attempts of Mathieu Dumas to remove the impression that the opposition slighted the fortunate General.