| John Milton - 1925 - 442 pages
...Senatour ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns not arms repell'd The fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift...know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou 'hast learnt, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee wee owe.... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1926 - 654 pages
...wrote his own despatches, thought out his reports, and employed his knowledge of European diplomacy ' to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled." He enjoyed the confidence of Washington, and so far as one can judge from correspondence... | |
| Helen Augur - 1930 - 374 pages
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| John Milton - 1931 - 368 pages
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| John Milton - 1931 - 306 pages
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| 1862 - 884 pages
...senator,— •' Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The hollow drift of States, hard to be spelled; Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her...main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage." The list of his writings appended by Mr. Upham to his instructive biography of our quondam fellow-citizen... | |
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