The War with Mexico ReviewedW. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850 - 298 strán (strany) Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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Strana xi
... XXIV . WAR AND THE FIRE - SIDE 231-240 CHAPTER XXV . THE VICES OF THE CAMP 240-245 CHAPTER XXVI . THE WAR - SPIRIT AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST · 245-254 CHAPTER XXVII . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED LESSONS OF THE CONTENTS . xi.
... XXIV . WAR AND THE FIRE - SIDE 231-240 CHAPTER XXV . THE VICES OF THE CAMP 240-245 CHAPTER XXVI . THE WAR - SPIRIT AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST · 245-254 CHAPTER XXVII . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED LESSONS OF THE CONTENTS . xi.
Strana 42
... fire the warlike passions in our countrymen . In the summer of 1845 , no less than three long series of essays appeared in the organ of the national administration , relative to our diffi- culties with Mexico , and characterized by a ...
... fire the warlike passions in our countrymen . In the summer of 1845 , no less than three long series of essays appeared in the organ of the national administration , relative to our diffi- culties with Mexico , and characterized by a ...
Strana 48
... fire up the Rio del Norte , and rattling the dried bones in New Mexico . * " Both Americans and Mexicans are making large pur- chases of land upon the streams running into the Rio del Norte and Arkansas , and anticipating Annexation ...
... fire up the Rio del Norte , and rattling the dried bones in New Mexico . * " Both Americans and Mexicans are making large pur- chases of land upon the streams running into the Rio del Norte and Arkansas , and anticipating Annexation ...
Strana 50
... fire and sword upon Mexico , have been indicated in this chapter . In succeeding ones , we propose to " count the cost " of our national pastime in arms , as it respects prop- erty , life , and all the elements of human prosperity and ...
... fire and sword upon Mexico , have been indicated in this chapter . In succeeding ones , we propose to " count the cost " of our national pastime in arms , as it respects prop- erty , life , and all the elements of human prosperity and ...
Strana 73
... fire on these presumptuous aggressors , who had penetrated so far into an American State under the protection of the Union ? Once at least Gen. Taylor so far forgot himself as to write thus , " It was my earnest desire to execute my ...
... fire on these presumptuous aggressors , who had penetrated so far into an American State under the protection of the Union ? Once at least Gen. Taylor so far forgot himself as to write thus , " It was my earnest desire to execute my ...
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Strana 264 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 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 273 - Governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves, using, for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.
Strana 237 - But the noble Mexic women still their holy task pursued, Through that long, dark night of sorrow, worn and faint and lacking food ; Over weak and suffering brothers, with a tender care they hung, And the dying foeman blessed them in a strange and Northern tongue.
Strana 71 - It is expected that, in selecting the establishment for your troops, you will approach as near the boundary line — the Rio Grande — as prudence will dictate. With this view the President desires that your position, for a part of your forces at least, should be west of the river Nueces.
Strana 5 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Strana 237 - Spake the mournful Mexic woman, as she laid him with her dead, And turned to soothe the living, and bind the wounds which bled. Look forth once more, Ximena! "Like a cloud before the wind...
Strana 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Strana 221 - Then if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Strana 13 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Strana 129 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.