Roumania: Yesterday and To-dayJohn Lane, 1918 - 270 pagine |
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Brani popolari
Pagina 139 - HARK ! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum ; Lo ! a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum, — Saying, " Come, Freemen, come ! Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum.
Pagina 250 - And to the injured power? Who counsels peace, when Vengeance, like a flood, Rolls on, no longer now to be repressed ; When innocent blood From the four corners of the world cries out For justice upon one accursed head ; When Freedom hath her holy banners spread Over all nations, now in one just cause United ; when, with one sublime accord, Europe throws off the yoke...
Pagina 250 - Woe, woe to England, woe and endless shame, If this heroic land, False to her feelings and unspotted fame, Hold out the olive to the tyrant's hand...
Pagina 122 - I made the mistake of my career, when I had the opportunity, that I did not remove the Hohenzollerns from the throne of Prussia. As long as this house reigns and until the red cap of liberty is erected in Germany, there will be no peace in Europe.
Pagina 138 - To-day, it is given to us to assure unshakably and in its fulness the work realized for the moment by Michael the Brave : the union of the Roumanians on both sides of the Carpathians. It is on us that it depends to-day to deliver from foreign domination our brothers beyond the mountains and the lands of Bukovina, where Stephen the Great sleeps his eternal sleep.
Pagina 254 - On heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, Up from the bottom turned by furious winds And surging waves, as mountains, to assault Heaven's height, and with the centre mix the pole, ' ' ' Silence, ye troubled waves ! and thou deep, peace...
Pagina 138 - It is in us, in the virtues of the race, in our gallantry that lives the powerful force which will give them once more the right to prosper in peace, in conformity with the customs and the aspirations of our common race, in a complete and free Roumania, from the Theiss to the sea.
Pagina 101 - OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE near eastern question may be defined as the problem of filling up the vacuum created by the gradual disappearance of the Turkish empire from Europe. Its history, therefore, may be said to begin at the moment when that empire, having attained its zenith, commenced to decline. The European dominions of Turkey reached their greatest extent in the latter half of the seventeenth century, when " the great Greek island
Pagina 126 - In peace time it was possible for Your Majesty to follow a policy contrary to the sentiment of the country, but to make war in defiance ISOLATION OF THE KING 477 of that sentiment is impossible".1 In falling back upon the position of "a constitutional monarch, who would not declare war alone", he was of course making a virtue of necessity. His written declaration, he said, was his political testament, which he would not renounce...
Pagina 69 - ... where arriving the 5 of September I was according to the Grand Signior his commandement very courteously interteined by Peter his positive prince, a Greeke by profession, with whom was concluded that her Maiesties subjects there trafiquing should pay but three upon the hundreth, which as well his owne subjects as all other nations answere : whose letters to her Maiestie be extant.