The Crimean campaign. American orators and statesmen. Journalism in France. Parisian morals and manners. The imitative powers of morals and manners. The imitative powers of music. British field sports. The science and literature of etiquette. The art of diningLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 |
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... light , or appre- ciated by their standard , will the British army stand with posterity ? How , so far as their influence ex- tends , does it now stand upon the Continent ? The first on the list contains the private letters of the ...
... light , or appre- ciated by their standard , will the British army stand with posterity ? How , so far as their influence ex- tends , does it now stand upon the Continent ? The first on the list contains the private letters of the ...
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... light steamer , and ascertained that the batteries were not yet mounted with guns . The intelligence which arrived about the same time , of the desperate step taken by the Russians of block- ing up the mouth of the harbour of Sebastopol ...
... light steamer , and ascertained that the batteries were not yet mounted with guns . The intelligence which arrived about the same time , of the desperate step taken by the Russians of block- ing up the mouth of the harbour of Sebastopol ...
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... light cavalry , who came up in about twenty minutes , and speedily con- verted the retreat into a rout . It was from the bivouac on the Tchernaia , on the 26th September , that Marshal St. Arnaud surren- dered his command . His illness ...
... light cavalry , who came up in about twenty minutes , and speedily con- verted the retreat into a rout . It was from the bivouac on the Tchernaia , on the 26th September , that Marshal St. Arnaud surren- dered his command . His illness ...
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... lights , and opened a brisk fire . Within ten minutes the whole of the French gun - boats were on their way back , whilst the English held steadily on and reached their destination . Before the division started , the British admiral ...
... lights , and opened a brisk fire . Within ten minutes the whole of the French gun - boats were on their way back , whilst the English held steadily on and reached their destination . Before the division started , the British admiral ...
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... light . Those are an enterprising , moneyed people they will be serviceable in taking off the surplus produce of our lands , and supplying us with necessaries , during the infant state of our manufactures . Even if they be inimical to ...
... light . Those are an enterprising , moneyed people they will be serviceable in taking off the surplus produce of our lands , and supplying us with necessaries , during the infant state of our manufactures . Even if they be inimical to ...
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Страница 45 - Peace, peace ! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Страница 44 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year...
Страница 55 - I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I indeed may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die; die, colonists; die, slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so ; be it so ! If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may.
Страница 87 - A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery.
Страница 422 - Behold him, while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than a scorching heat, that he is so passive to. How equably he twirleth round the string! — Now he is just done. To see the extreme sensibility of that tender age, he hath wept out his pretty eyes — radiant jellies — shooting stars 8 — See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth!
Страница 59 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Страница 86 - Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; was it disease ; was it the tomahawk ; was it the deep malady of a blighted hope- a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left beyond the sea ; was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate...
Страница 43 - Treason !" cried the Speaker. " Treason! treason !" echoed from every part of the house. It was one of those trying moments which is decisive of a character.
Страница 68 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Страница 86 - And is it possible that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope ? Is it possible that, from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy, not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, a reality so important, a promise yet to be fulfilled so glorious...