| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 pagine
...think thém in force and héart sufficient to make much of it. But onward, What signifies self.... Il is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be spread.... Thé mere selfish calculation oupht never to be madc on such occasions and... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pagine
...signifies self, if a single spark of that which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed unquenchedly to the future ? It is not one man, nor a million, but the tpb-it of liberty which must be spread. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken,... | |
| Lewis Sergeant - 1878 - 462 pagine
...tide they help to advance can reach its full mark. ' What signifies self,' was his generous thought, ' if a single spark of that which would be worthy of...past can be bequeathed unquenchably to the future ? ' Such was the devoted feeling with which he embarked in the cause of Italy ; and these words, which,... | |
| Giuseppe Mazzini - 1891 - 356 pagine
...final * triumph of liberty. The following passage from his journal is the very abstract of the law governing the efforts of the true party of progress...single spark of that which would be worthy of the pastf can be bequeathed unquenchably to the future ? It is not one man, nor a million, but the spirit... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 602 pagine
...final 6 triumph of liberty. The following passage from his journal is the very abstract of the law governing the efforts of the true party of progress...single spark of that which would be worthy of the past 7 can be bequeathed unquenchably to the future ? It is not one man, nor a million, but the spirit of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1839 - 808 pagine
...back ; though I don't think them in force or heart sufficient to make much of it. But, onirard! — it is now the time to act, and what signifies self,...which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed nnquenehedly to the future ? It is not one man, nor a million, but the spirit of liberty which must... | |
| Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1912 - 382 pagine
...during the Italian insurrectionary movement, Byron had written in the Ravenna Journal : " What signif1es Self, if a single spark of that which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed unquenchedly to the future? ... It is a grand object — the v try poetry of politics. Only think —... | |
| Samuel Claggett Chew - 1915 - 206 pagine
...especial reference to Marino Faliero, note two passages from his journal, written in 1821. "Onward! — it is now the time to act, and what signifies self,...which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed unquenchedly to the future? It is not one man, nor a million, but the spirit of liberty which must... | |
| Dora Neill Raymond - 1924 - 394 pagine
...attempt which he believed foredoomed to failure. " What signifies self," he questioned in his diary, " if a single spark of that which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed unquenchedly to the future? . . . The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but... | |
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