Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volumen1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 56
Página 4
... whole world long ago ( turning the use of iron into milder workes ) , should have lived in most quiet tranquillity , and have met together in a firme and indis- soluble League of most safe Concord . — ARNOBIUS , ADVERSUS GENTES , LIB ...
... whole world long ago ( turning the use of iron into milder workes ) , should have lived in most quiet tranquillity , and have met together in a firme and indis- soluble League of most safe Concord . — ARNOBIUS , ADVERSUS GENTES , LIB ...
Página 8
... whole Federation of Nations . Besides , at this moment , it derives a peculiar and urgent interest from transactions in which we are unhappily involved . On the one side , by an act of unjust legisla- tion , extending our power over ...
... whole Federation of Nations . Besides , at this moment , it derives a peculiar and urgent interest from transactions in which we are unhappily involved . On the one side , by an act of unjust legisla- tion , extending our power over ...
Página 18
... whole custom of War , as sanctioned by the Law of Nations . On this account I resort to that supreme law , for the true definition of the Evil . And let me be understood here as planting myself on this definition . This is the main ...
... whole custom of War , as sanctioned by the Law of Nations . On this account I resort to that supreme law , for the true definition of the Evil . And let me be understood here as planting myself on this definition . This is the main ...
Página 22
... whole heavens , as with a pall , to be broken only by the blazing lightnings of the battle and the siege . - These horrors redden every page of history ; while to the scandal of humanity , they have never wanted historians to describe ...
... whole heavens , as with a pall , to be broken only by the blazing lightnings of the battle and the siege . - These horrors redden every page of history ; while to the scandal of humanity , they have never wanted historians to describe ...
Página 26
... whole city , sank to the earth dead or wounded ? Fifty days after the battle , no less than twenty thousand are found lying where they have fallen , and the whole plain is strewn with half - buried carcasses of men and horses ...
... whole city , sank to the earth dead or wounded ? Fifty days after the battle , no less than twenty thousand are found lying where they have fallen , and the whole plain is strewn with half - buried carcasses of men and horses ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Algerine Algiers Allston American ancient antiquity Argel arms army barbarous beauty beneficent Benevolence blessed blood brothers Cæsar captives cents Cervantes Channing character Christian Christian slaves church Cicero civilization conduct confess death declared distant divine duty early earth England English Europe evil Fame Father force France freedom genius happiness heart Heaven honor human illustrations individuals influence Jurist justice knowledge labors land Laws of War learning Leibnitz literature lives Lord Lord Exmouth mankind master ment mind moral Morocco nations nature Navy orator Peace Pharsalia poet praise Progress race recognized regard religion Roman Rome sacred says scene selfish sentiment ships slavery slaves soldiers soul spirit story strife success sword Thomas Phelps tion Titian Trial by Battle triumph True Glory truth Tunis victory virtue voice War with Tripoli White Slavery words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 370 - Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us ; and to be merciful, just, and pure (Science and Health, p.
Página 178 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and, without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Página 83 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 111 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel. With belted sword and spur on heel: They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night: They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Página 217 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Página 298 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Página 324 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Página 20 - 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...
Página 45 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 116 - This little State," says Oldmixon, " subsisted in the midst of six Indian nations, without so much as a Militia for its defence.