Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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Page 37
... force into a foreign long as the house of Hapsburg could send Hun- nationality ; " and proceeds to assert , that " the unjustifiably violent methods used by them are in- disputable . The flogging of peasantry that refused the change of ...
... force into a foreign long as the house of Hapsburg could send Hun- nationality ; " and proceeds to assert , that " the unjustifiably violent methods used by them are in- disputable . The flogging of peasantry that refused the change of ...
Page 39
... force , England appears to me , and did ap- army is almost entirely dissolved , the city dis- pear to us all , to be especially concerned . Three armed , and the " factious " sent away even to the questions , the question of principle ...
... force , England appears to me , and did ap- army is almost entirely dissolved , the city dis- pear to us all , to be especially concerned . Three armed , and the " factious " sent away even to the questions , the question of principle ...
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... force . But the assistance of the people may spare us many bloody sacrifices , much reäc- tionary violence , that we , men of order and peace , have striven to avoid , but which , in the power- lessness of exile , we may not be able to ...
... force . But the assistance of the people may spare us many bloody sacrifices , much reäc- tionary violence , that we , men of order and peace , have striven to avoid , but which , in the power- lessness of exile , we may not be able to ...
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... force of his genius he obtained the mastery of the move- ment , " struggled with democracy when it was strongest , and ruled it when it was wildest ; " and had the glory , by his single courage and energy , of saving the character of ...
... force of his genius he obtained the mastery of the move- ment , " struggled with democracy when it was strongest , and ruled it when it was wildest ; " and had the glory , by his single courage and energy , of saving the character of ...
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... force of reason , and altogether beyond the cuted along with Malesherbes , shortly before the reach of facts , how strong or convincing soever . fall of Robespierre . Obliged now to fly to Eng- Accordingly , he remains to this hour ...
... force of reason , and altogether beyond the cuted along with Malesherbes , shortly before the reach of facts , how strong or convincing soever . fall of Robespierre . Obliged now to fly to Eng- Accordingly , he remains to this hour ...
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 400 - 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...