The Completeness of the Late Duke of Wellington as a National Character. Two LecturesJoseph Masters, 1854 - 104 sivua |
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... friend was perusing my advertisement in this critical vein , he did not also say , that in proposing to consider " Wellington without his wars , , " I reminded him of that placard which we are told was once exhibited in London , -or it ...
... friend was perusing my advertisement in this critical vein , he did not also say , that in proposing to consider " Wellington without his wars , , " I reminded him of that placard which we are told was once exhibited in London , -or it ...
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... friends , instead of to the whole world . Now that his wars have given him a world - wide fame , the whole earth may read his character , and gaze upon a man set in high places as a burning and shining ex- ample . Of all the men that ...
... friends , instead of to the whole world . Now that his wars have given him a world - wide fame , the whole earth may read his character , and gaze upon a man set in high places as a burning and shining ex- ample . Of all the men that ...
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... friends , early in life , knew how his word was to be depended on . A lady , an intimate connection of his , said to him one day , " I know that whatever you promise , you will do : promise me that you will read a chapter every day out ...
... friends , early in life , knew how his word was to be depended on . A lady , an intimate connection of his , said to him one day , " I know that whatever you promise , you will do : promise me that you will read a chapter every day out ...
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... friends and foes have scrutinised it for years , and not found it wanting . His public character is a citadel that no assaults can carry , for it is planted on a rock , and that rock Truth . Blemishes may be found in his private ...
... friends and foes have scrutinised it for years , and not found it wanting . His public character is a citadel that no assaults can carry , for it is planted on a rock , and that rock Truth . Blemishes may be found in his private ...
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... friends , the Ministry of the day , talked feebly in his support ; when , if we could have looked into the popular feeling of that day , we should have found it composed of wiseacres , who prophesied that the English army would be cut ...
... friends , the Ministry of the day , talked feebly in his support ; when , if we could have looked into the popular feeling of that day , we should have found it composed of wiseacres , who prophesied that the English army would be cut ...
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Sivu 86 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Sivu 28 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Sivu 40 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Sivu 44 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Sivu 31 - Government were relieved from the pressure of military operations on the Continent, they would incur all risks to land an army in His Majesty's dominions. Then indeed would commence an expensive contest ; then would His Majesty's subjects discover what are the miseries of war, of which, by the blessing of God, they have hitherto had no knowledge ; and the cultivation, the beauty, and prosperity of the country, and the virtue and happiness of its inhabitants would be destroyed, whatever might be the...
Sivu 16 - It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Sivu 59 - ... appears to be in the very crisis of her fate ; we should, on the contrary, extend a more anxious care over her at a moment so critical. For in nations, and above all in Spain, how often have the apparent symptoms of dissolution been the presages of new life and of renovated vigour ? Therefore I would cling to Spain in her last struggle ; therefore I would watch her last agonies ; I would wash and heal her wounds, I would receive her parting breath, I would catch and cherish the last vital spark...
Sivu 37 - French army, who has not had reason to repent of it, and to complain of them. This is the mode in which the promises have been performed and the assurances have been fulfilled which were held out in the proclamation of the French...
Sivu 45 - I am one of those who have probably passed a longer period of my life engaged in war than most men, and principally, I may say, in civil war ; and I must say this — that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice whatever, even one month of civil war in the country to which I am attached, I would sacrifice my life in order to do it [cheers].
Sivu 58 - It should not dishearten us that Spain appears to be in the very crisis of her fate. We should, on the contrary, extend a more anxious care over her at a moment so critical. For in nations, and ,above all in Spain, how often have the apparent symptoms of dissolution been the...