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Page 11 - Abject as this would in a little time Be found no more, that we should see the earth Unthwarted in her wish to recompense The meek, the lowly, patient child of toil, All institutes for ever blotted out That...
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Page 199 - The king and his parliament mean to make war against us; will the English republicans suffer it? Already these free men show their discontent, and the repugnance which they have to bear arms against their brothers, the French. Well! we will fly to their succour; we will make a descent on the island; we will lodge there fifty thousand caps of liberty; we will plant there the sacred tree, and we will stretch out our arms to our republican brethren; the tyranny of their government will soon be destroyed....
Page 12 - Frenchmen had changed a war of selfdefence For one of conquest, losing sight of all Which they had struggled for: up mounted now, Openly in the eye of earth and heaven, 210 The scale of liberty.
Page 103 - His birth, and the history of his life ; the profundity of his doctrine, which grapples the mightiest difficulties, and which is of those difficulties, the most admirable solution ; his Gospel, his apparition, his empire, his march across the ages and the realms...
Page 368 - DONALDSON'S The Theatre of the Greeks. A Treatise on the History and Exhibition of the Greek Drama. With numerous Illustrations and 3 Plans. By John William Donaldson, DD 5*. DRAPER'S History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.
Page 144 - ... arrangements, it is necessary that all manner of civil persons should remain at their respective habitations ; and any peasants or other persons found in arms, singly, or in small troops, or who may be guilty of any act of violence, must expect to be treated •with rigour. " The government of his Danish majesty having hitherto refused to treat this matter in an amicable way, part of the army has been disembarked, and the whole force has assumed a warlike attitude ; but it is as yet not too late...
Page 14 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty ! There came a Tyrant, and with holy glee Thou fought'st against him...
Page 368 - History of the House of Austria, From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 368 - HOOPER'S (G.) Waterloo : The Downfall of the First Napoleon : a History of the Campaign of 1815.