Napoleon was a fine engine:--there is a difference.

Yes, Ironsides is a fine fellow! but he and I may cross.

His ideas are not many.

The point to remember is that he is iron on them: he can drive them hard into the density of the globe.

He has quick nerves and imagination: he can conjure up, penetrate, and traverse complications--an enemy's plans, all that the enemy will be able to combine, and the likeliest that he will do.