The Duel Between France and Germany: With Its Lesson to CivilizationLee and Shepard, 1871 - 74 pages |
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19th of July Abbé de Saint-Pierre abolished abolition according Almanach de Gotha already Arbiter arms authority balance of power barbarous became Berlin blood Cabinet called candidature of Prince capitulation character citizen civilized world combat continued Count Benedetti Count Bismarck crown despotism Diet of Worms Disarmament Dismemberment Duc de Gramont duel duty dynastic Emmanuel Kant Empire England established Europe famous followed force France and Germany French Emperor French Empire frontier Germany Government guaranty honor human Imperial indemnity insist institutions International Law Jules Favre Kant King Leibnitz light heart Louis Napoleon Louis XIV manifesto ment military nations natural oath Paris peace peril present duel pretext Prime Minister Prince Leopold protest provinces Prussia question ready reason Republic Republican retribution rule says sentiment Slavery soldier sovereign Spain Standing Army surprise System telegram throne tion took the sword Trial by Battle tribune triumph unity waged Wissembourg words working-men
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Page 21 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 38 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 10 - France, he concludes by saying, in ominous words, that, " strong in your support, gentlemen, and in that of the nation, we shall know how to fulfil our duty without hesitation and without weakness...
Page 60 - ... misfortunes a source of fresh speculations, we protest, we who want peace, labour and liberty ! .... Brothers of Germany ! Our division would only result in the complete triumph of the despotism on both sides of the Rhine.
Page 60 - In the name of the German Democracy, and especially of the workmen forming the Democratic Socialist Party, we declare the present war to be exclusively dynastic. . . . We are happy to grasp the fraternal hand stretched out to us by the workmen of France. . . . Mindful of the watchword of the International Working Men's Association: Proletarians of all countries, unite, we shall never forget that the workmen of all countries are our friends and the despots of all countries our enemies.
Page 66 - Let your readers fancy masses of colored rags glued together with blood and brains, and pinned into strange shapes by fragments of bones, — let them conceive men's bodies without heads, legs without bodies, heaps of human entrails attached to red and blue cloth, and disembowelled corpses in uniform, bodies lying about in all attitudes, with skulls shattered, faces blown off, hips smashed, bones, flesh, and gay clothing all pounded together as if brayed in a mortar extending for miles, not very...
Page 33 - In presence of God, and before the French people, represented by the National Assembly, I swear to remain faithful to the Democratic Republic One and Indivisible, and to fulfil all the duties which the Constitution imposes upon me.
Page 1 - The right of conquest ; for, when Kings make war, No law betwixt two sovereigns can decide, But that of arms, where fortune is the judge, Soldiers the lawyers, and the bar the field.
Page 33 - We have, citizen representatives, a great mission to fulfil — it is to found a Republic in the interest of all, and a Government just and firm, which shall be animated by a sincere love of progress, without being either reactionary or Utopian.
Page 25 - By military success and a peace dictated at Berlin, the Emperor trusted to find himself in such condition, that, on return to Paris, he could overthrow parliamentary government so far as it existed there, and reestablish personal government, where all depended upon himself, — thus making triumph over Germany the means of another triumph over the French people.