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... Italy of Mad . De Stael , the . 38 Isthmus Line to the Pacific , the . By Lieut . Maury . 259 377 · 114 Johnson , the late Chapman . J. D. Jones , Sir William , Poems of . 674 721 Day in Dalarme , A. 492 K. Description of the Burial ...
... Italy of Mad . De Stael , the . 38 Isthmus Line to the Pacific , the . By Lieut . Maury . 259 377 · 114 Johnson , the late Chapman . J. D. Jones , Sir William , Poems of . 674 721 Day in Dalarme , A. 492 K. Description of the Burial ...
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... Italy to its eternal oppressor . Paris was , as usual , the spark that set fire to all the combustible material of the Continent . The flame spread rapidly and the proportions of the gigantic conflagration are hardly yet deter- mined ...
... Italy to its eternal oppressor . Paris was , as usual , the spark that set fire to all the combustible material of the Continent . The flame spread rapidly and the proportions of the gigantic conflagration are hardly yet deter- mined ...
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... Italian , Bohemian , and Slave were out and its disastrous consequences threatened equally sacrificed to these German tendencies , once more the very existence of the House of and the whole policy of Austria reduced itself Austria ; and ...
... Italian , Bohemian , and Slave were out and its disastrous consequences threatened equally sacrificed to these German tendencies , once more the very existence of the House of and the whole policy of Austria reduced itself Austria ; and ...
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... Italy were to be rewarded he claimed as his only our father , we shall be left to his unrestrained favor a place among his fellow Croats . This was rule ? Let the Magyar resuscitate his own race , granted and he lived for years as one ...
... Italy were to be rewarded he claimed as his only our father , we shall be left to his unrestrained favor a place among his fellow Croats . This was rule ? Let the Magyar resuscitate his own race , granted and he lived for years as one ...
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... Italy alone has ces and the minstrels , by whom they were com- preserved , in the art of the Improvisatore , some - posed and sung , retained their place in the esteem thing like the diversified and spirited poesy of the of the feudal ...
... Italy alone has ces and the minstrels , by whom they were com- preserved , in the art of the Improvisatore , some - posed and sung , retained their place in the esteem thing like the diversified and spirited poesy of the of the feudal ...
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Page 118 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Page 277 - ... all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation are to be exploded as a ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion.
Page 277 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Page 14 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Page 46 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Page 394 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 276 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Page 14 - He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Page 276 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Page 468 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.