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... matters related in the first part of this book begin . If it had not rained on the night between the 17th and 18th June , 1815 , the future of Europe would have been changed ; a few drops of rain more or less , made Napoleon oscillate ...
... matters related in the first part of this book begin . If it had not rained on the night between the 17th and 18th June , 1815 , the future of Europe would have been changed ; a few drops of rain more or less , made Napoleon oscillate ...
Side 34
... matter as the invention of gunpowder diminished the warlike spirit , by diminishing the number of persons to whom the practice of war was habitual . There were , no doubt , other and collateral circum- stances which tended in the same ...
... matter as the invention of gunpowder diminished the warlike spirit , by diminishing the number of persons to whom the practice of war was habitual . There were , no doubt , other and collateral circum- stances which tended in the same ...
Side 39
... matters the same process has been followed . To prove this in its full ex- tent , and thus raise the presumption to an absolute certainty , would be to write , not an Introduction to history , but the History itself . The reader must ...
... matters the same process has been followed . To prove this in its full ex- tent , and thus raise the presumption to an absolute certainty , would be to write , not an Introduction to history , but the History itself . The reader must ...
Side 42
... matter of practical statesman- ship , the theory of free trade . Adam Smith theorized , the French statesmen dreamed , but no man at the head of affairs had ever dared to risk it as a practical measure . Eu- rope waited until 1846 ...
... matter of practical statesman- ship , the theory of free trade . Adam Smith theorized , the French statesmen dreamed , but no man at the head of affairs had ever dared to risk it as a practical measure . Eu- rope waited until 1846 ...
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... matters of fact , dates , and circumstances , it turns out that I was in the right and my cousin in the wrong . But where we have differed upon moral points ; upon something proper to be done , or let alone ; whatever heat of opposition ...
... matters of fact , dates , and circumstances , it turns out that I was in the right and my cousin in the wrong . But where we have differed upon moral points ; upon something proper to be done , or let alone ; whatever heat of opposition ...
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Side 311 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Side 280 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Side 280 - Bartholomew!" was passed from man to man ; But out spake gentle Henry, — " No Frenchman is my foe ; Down, down with every foreigner ! but let your brethren go.
Side 160 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Side 160 - Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; ' Speed !' echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Side 309 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown...
Side 280 - A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Side 296 - Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Side 206 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Side 310 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.