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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... reason of their proximity to the sea , which enabled the ships to cover their flank . The English were exposed to the attack of the Russian cavalry ( estimated by St. Arnaud at 5000 ) , if they ventured into the open ground . This ...
... reason of their proximity to the sea , which enabled the ships to cover their flank . The English were exposed to the attack of the Russian cavalry ( estimated by St. Arnaud at 5000 ) , if they ventured into the open ground . This ...
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... reason to believe that , if these works had been forced , the allied army would have been masters of Sebastopol within three days ; the northern forts being insufficiently garrisoned , and otherwise ill adapted to resist an attack by ...
... reason to believe that , if these works had been forced , the allied army would have been masters of Sebastopol within three days ; the northern forts being insufficiently garrisoned , and otherwise ill adapted to resist an attack by ...
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... reason to believe that the superiority of our ( the French ) batteries over those of the town would speedily permit us to attempt the assault , for the eventuality of which all had been prepared , and columns designated beforehand ...
... reason to believe that the superiority of our ( the French ) batteries over those of the town would speedily permit us to attempt the assault , for the eventuality of which all had been prepared , and columns designated beforehand ...
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... for he left 5000 in Bulgaria , and a large additional number might have been procured at Constantinople . It will be remembered that the tents and knapsacks were left behind for the same reason c 2 THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN . 19.
... for he left 5000 in Bulgaria , and a large additional number might have been procured at Constantinople . It will be remembered that the tents and knapsacks were left behind for the same reason c 2 THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN . 19.
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Abraham Hayward. tents and knapsacks were left behind for the same reason ; so that , if the full complement of 14,000 beasts of burden had been required , the expedition would have been impossible . Those who blame the commander - in ...
Abraham Hayward. tents and knapsacks were left behind for the same reason ; so that , if the full complement of 14,000 beasts of burden had been required , the expedition would have been impossible . Those who blame the commander - in ...
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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...