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 viii
... say , that God works by means and by men . When was the lowest whisper of prayer unheeded , or the faintest effort unblessed , that ran parallel with his benevolent purposes and his eternal laws ? The highest ambition of the writer will ...
... say , that God works by means and by men . When was the lowest whisper of prayer unheeded , or the faintest effort unblessed , that ran parallel with his benevolent purposes and his eternal laws ? The highest ambition of the writer will ...
Strana 11
... say , that in some portions of the East , the Centre , the feudal South , and South - West , and the rude West , the good principles of an earlier day have lost their savor , and the way has been opened for precisely such results as ...
... say , that in some portions of the East , the Centre , the feudal South , and South - West , and the rude West , the good principles of an earlier day have lost their savor , and the way has been opened for precisely such results as ...
Strana 14
... say that we discern in slavery the main - spring to the war with Mexico . Had the idea of extending the " peculiar " institutions of the South , and the political power resulting therefrom , been entirely excluded from the ques- tion ...
... say that we discern in slavery the main - spring to the war with Mexico . Had the idea of extending the " peculiar " institutions of the South , and the political power resulting therefrom , been entirely excluded from the ques- tion ...
Strana 20
... says that , " It is thrown out , in some of the papers of the United States , that the annexation of Texas is to be a measure ef- fected by a compromise , a condition being that the Territory of Texas is to be divided into three States ...
... says that , " It is thrown out , in some of the papers of the United States , that the annexation of Texas is to be a measure ef- fected by a compromise , a condition being that the Territory of Texas is to be divided into three States ...
Strana 22
... says : " Annexation was desired , for the purpose of sustaining and extending the institution of slavery , a motive by which he could not be governed . The institution of slavery was one which belonged exclusively to us of the South ...
... says : " Annexation was desired , for the purpose of sustaining and extending the institution of slavery , a motive by which he could not be governed . The institution of slavery was one which belonged exclusively to us of the South ...
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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.