Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Zväzok 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 58.
Strana 11
... sentiment , in no true love of country , in no generous thirst for fame , that last infirmity of noble minds , but springing in both cases from an ignorant and ignoble passion for new territories ; strengthened , in one case , by an ...
... sentiment , in no true love of country , in no generous thirst for fame , that last infirmity of noble minds , but springing in both cases from an ignorant and ignoble passion for new territories ; strengthened , in one case , by an ...
Strana 35
... sentiment is uttered by the military historian of the Peninsular campaigns , when he says : " Fortune always asserts her supremacy in War , and often from a slight mistake , such disastrous consequences flow , that , in every age and in ...
... sentiment is uttered by the military historian of the Peninsular campaigns , when he says : " Fortune always asserts her supremacy in War , and often from a slight mistake , such disastrous consequences flow , that , in every age and in ...
Strana 40
... sentiment of duty ; who began a long and illustrious reign by renouncing and restoring a portion of the conquests of his predecessor , saying to those about him , whose souls did not ascend to the height of his morality , " I know that ...
... sentiment of duty ; who began a long and illustrious reign by renouncing and restoring a portion of the conquests of his predecessor , saying to those about him , whose souls did not ascend to the height of his morality , " I know that ...
Strana 54
... sentiment , in unhappy harmony with the profane language of the British peer , when , in address- ing the House of Lords , he said , " The best road to Peace , my Lords , is War ; War carried on in the same manner in which we are taught ...
... sentiment , in unhappy harmony with the profane language of the British peer , when , in address- ing the House of Lords , he said , " The best road to Peace , my Lords , is War ; War carried on in the same manner in which we are taught ...
Strana 55
... sentiment the war - worn monarch may be remembered , when the fame of his battles has passed away . And who is the God of Battles ! It is Mars ; man- slaying , blood - polluted , city - smiting Mars ! + Him we cannot adore . It is not ...
... sentiment the war - worn monarch may be remembered , when the fame of his battles has passed away . And who is the God of Battles ! It is Mars ; man- slaying , blood - polluted , city - smiting Mars ! + Him we cannot adore . It is not ...
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
admiration Algerine Algiers Allston American ancient Arbitrament Argel arms army Artist barbarous beauty behold beneficent benevolence blessed blood brothers Cæsar captives Channing character Christian Christian slaves church Cicero civilization color confess custom death declared divine duty early earth England English Europe evil Fame Father force France freedom friends genius Government happiness heart Heaven highest honor human illustrations individuals influence jurisprudence Jurist justice knowledge labors land Laws of War learning lives Lord mankind master ment mind moral Morocco nations nature Navy orator Peace Philanthropist poet praise profession recognized regard religion Roman sacred says scene scholar selfish sentiment ships slavery slaves soldiers soul spirit story strife sword Thomas Phelps tion Titian Trial by Battle triumph True Glory True Grandeur truth Tunis victory virtue voice War with Tripoli White Slavery William Penn words wrong youth
Populárne pasáže
Strana 368 - Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Strana 109 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel. With belted sword and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Strana 81 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Strana 215 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Strana 18 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Strana 194 - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Strana 43 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Strana 114 - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.
Strana 176 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and, without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Strana 401 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.