The American Whig Review, Volumen5Wiley and Putnam, 1847 |
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... successful negotiation would be better with one more hostile , but possessing greater energy . " The President cannot say with truth that he believed , or seri- ously apprehended , on the 13th of Janu- ary , that Paredes , if then in ...
... successful negotiation would be better with one more hostile , but possessing greater energy . " The President cannot say with truth that he believed , or seri- ously apprehended , on the 13th of Janu- ary , that Paredes , if then in ...
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... successful , provided only that the terms of peace which the government were prepared to offer , were sufficiently moderate and reasonable . Why it was a total failure we think is apparent enough , and may be easily shown . From the ...
... successful , provided only that the terms of peace which the government were prepared to offer , were sufficiently moderate and reasonable . Why it was a total failure we think is apparent enough , and may be easily shown . From the ...
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... successful issue seemed probable - M . Thiers disappeared from the scene ! This fact is undenied , and it remains now only to state the cir- cumstances with which it was attended , the impression it left upon the liberal party , and the ...
... successful issue seemed probable - M . Thiers disappeared from the scene ! This fact is undenied , and it remains now only to state the cir- cumstances with which it was attended , the impression it left upon the liberal party , and the ...
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... success ceased to be doubtful . Recently , however , a narrative of the incident has appeared , which must be re- garded as having the authority of M. Thiers himself , and as we have given the view of the matter popularly received , we ...
... success ceased to be doubtful . Recently , however , a narrative of the incident has appeared , which must be re- garded as having the authority of M. Thiers himself , and as we have given the view of the matter popularly received , we ...
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... success . It was on the next day , Thursday , the 29th , that the combat might be considered as seriously begun . The people had fairly committed them- selves and the national cause offered some hopes of success . MM . Thiers and Mignet ...
... success . It was on the next day , Thursday , the 29th , that the combat might be considered as seriously begun . The people had fairly committed them- selves and the national cause offered some hopes of success . MM . Thiers and Mignet ...
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Página 135 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 54 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 122 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale...
Página 403 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 529 - WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith ;) Utterance, mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our simple breath : All who see us love us, — We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles, — and unto graces, graces.
Página 547 - I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound" This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it reached the ears of George II.
Página 174 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Página 39 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 518 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers...