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Napoleon I. (1761, 1804–1814, died 1821). He looked on himself as an instrument in the hands of destiny.
“The Man of Destiny … had power for a time to bind kings with chains, and nobles with fetters of iron.”—Sir Walter Scott.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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