1 I have always said so and I am beginning to experience it.
2 It was a war for a great cause, the end of uncertainties and the beginning of security.
3 Those who had quitted Moscow already in July and at the beginning of August showed that they expected this.
4 But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible.
5 At the beginning of the battle they stood blocking the way to Moscow and they still did so at the end of the battle as at the beginning.
6 The weather was calm, and the rustle and tramp of the French troops already beginning to move to take up their positions were clearly audible.
7 And for the first time Sonya felt that out of her pure, quiet love for Nicholas a passionate feeling was beginning to grow up which was stronger than principle, virtue, or religion.
8 In the midst of this conversation, which was beginning to interest Napoleon, Berthier's eyes turned to look at a general with a suite, who was galloping toward the knoll on a lathering horse.
9 The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets.
10 When the crowd collected round him he seemed confused, but at the demand of the tall lad who had pushed his way up to him, he began in a rather tremulous voice to read the sheet from the beginning.
11 At last the Emperor, tired of futile expectation, his actor's instinct suggesting to him that the sublime moment having been too long drawn out was beginning to lose its sublimity, gave a sign with his hand.
12 At the very beginning of the war our armies were divided, and our sole aim was to unite them, though uniting the armies was no advantage if we meant to retire and lure the enemy into the depths of the country.
13 The first method of history is to take an arbitrarily selected series of continuous events and examine it apart from others, though there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another.
14 But however small the units it takes, we feel that to take any unit disconnected from others, or to assume a beginning of any phenomenon, or to say that the will of many men is expressed by the actions of any one historic personage, is in itself false.