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 11
... live and bear their bitter fruits , or wither and die , is for the friends of peace , under God , to decide . The great valley of the West may become the hot - bed of war ; and nothing but a wide and early dissemination of the pacific ...
... live and bear their bitter fruits , or wither and die , is for the friends of peace , under God , to decide . The great valley of the West may become the hot - bed of war ; and nothing but a wide and early dissemination of the pacific ...
Strana 28
... lives , and they will demand the settlement of this question now , preliminary to any further prosecution of the war . " - Mr. Sims , of South Carolina , in a speech in the House of Representatives , Jan. 28 , 1847 : “ And I have no ...
... lives , and they will demand the settlement of this question now , preliminary to any further prosecution of the war . " - Mr. Sims , of South Carolina , in a speech in the House of Representatives , Jan. 28 , 1847 : “ And I have no ...
Strana 45
... lives , desolating the hope of the virtuous and the free . Let all parties shun this spirit as they would dishonor . Let the country smite it down in its early manhood , ere that manhood be smitten unto death , by its foul and degrading ...
... lives , desolating the hope of the virtuous and the free . Let all parties shun this spirit as they would dishonor . Let the country smite it down in its early manhood , ere that manhood be smitten unto death , by its foul and degrading ...
Strana 81
... lives , and millions of money . So far as the peace was a measure forced by the sword , it is as dishonorable in the light of humanity and Christianity to the victorious , as it is humiliating to the vanquished nation . For Fenelon ...
... lives , and millions of money . So far as the peace was a measure forced by the sword , it is as dishonorable in the light of humanity and Christianity to the victorious , as it is humiliating to the vanquished nation . For Fenelon ...
Strana 93
... lives , the loss of health to so many thousand more , thus sinking a large amount of the productive labor of the country ; the employment of multitudes in the barren and unproductive work of equipping the warrior , the war- horse , and ...
... lives , the loss of health to so many thousand more , thus sinking a large amount of the productive labor of the country ; the employment of multitudes in the barren and unproductive work of equipping the warrior , the war- horse , and ...
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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.