History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Volume 8W. Blackwood, 1860 |
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... ment , and their genius to acquire immortal renown . There were giants in the earth in those days.2 Arthur Wellesley , educated at Eton , studied for a short time at the military academy of Angers , in France , where Napoleon also for ...
... ment , and their genius to acquire immortal renown . There were giants in the earth in those days.2 Arthur Wellesley , educated at Eton , studied for a short time at the military academy of Angers , in France , where Napoleon also for ...
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... ment of men , and the far - seeing sagacity of a consummate statesman , MARQUESS WELLESLEY is not equally remark- able . He was born in the year 1760 , the eldest son of the family , and gave early promise , both at school and college ...
... ment of men , and the far - seeing sagacity of a consummate statesman , MARQUESS WELLESLEY is not equally remark- able . He was born in the year 1760 , the eldest son of the family , and gave early promise , both at school and college ...
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... ment are there developed with a master's hand and a statesman's wisdom ; all the subsequent measures of the governor - general obtained the cordial support of this able auxiliary in the British cabinet . It may safely be affirmed , that ...
... ment are there developed with a master's hand and a statesman's wisdom ; all the subsequent measures of the governor - general obtained the cordial support of this able auxiliary in the British cabinet . It may safely be affirmed , that ...
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... ment at Madras , where the principal efforts required to be made , rendered that altogether impracticable . So * Sir Thomas Munro , one of the ablest men that Great Britain ever pro- duced , or India developed , was of the same opinion ...
... ment at Madras , where the principal efforts required to be made , rendered that altogether impracticable . So * Sir Thomas Munro , one of the ablest men that Great Britain ever pro- duced , or India developed , was of the same opinion ...
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... General Harris ; and that , if he did not hear from him to the contrary in ten minutes , he might conclude the suggestion was approved of . Nothing was i . 517 , and ii . 98 . 2 ―― XLIX . 1799 . 25 . ment of the 26 HISTORY OF EUROPE .
... General Harris ; and that , if he did not hear from him to the contrary in ten minutes , he might conclude the suggestion was approved of . Nothing was i . 517 , and ii . 98 . 2 ―― XLIX . 1799 . 25 . ment of the 26 HISTORY OF EUROPE .
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Parole e frasi comuni
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Brani popolari
Pagina 601 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Pagina 601 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Pagina 600 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Pagina 601 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Pagina 128 - ... any vessel, or the cargo of any vessel, belonging to any country not declared by this order to be subjected to the restrictions incident to a state of blockade...
Pagina 146 - If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Pagina 129 - And whereas countries not engaged in the war, have acquiesced in the orders of France prohibiting all trade in any articles the produce or manufacture of his Majesty's dominions; and the merchants of those countries have given countenance and effect to those prohibitions, by accepting from persons...
Pagina 128 - ... all trade in articles which are of the produce or manufacture of the said countries or colonies, shall be deemed and considered to be unlawful; and that every vessel trading from or to the said countries or colonies, together with all goods and merchandise on board, and all articles of the produce or manufacture of the said countries or colonies, shall be captured and condemned as prize to the captors.
Pagina 503 - For this plain reason,' was the answer, ' I am nimmukwaUah, as we say in the East; that is, I have ate of the King's salt, and, therefore, I conceive it to be my duty to serve with unhesitating zeal and cheerfulness, when and wherever the King or his government may think proper to employ me.
Pagina 195 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.