text:  The pure air; the perpetual change of scene; the novelty of the landscape; the restless and vivid variety of events and those too of the most powerful and comprehensive nature; the superb display of the finest army that the Continent had sent to war for the last hundred years; and all this excitement and enjoyment with an unrivaled vista of matchless conquest in the horizon a triumphal march through the provinces to be consummated by the peace of Europe in Paris filled even my vexed and wearied spirit with new life