The Completeness of the Late Duke of Wellington as a National Character. Two LecturesJoseph Masters, 1854 - 104 sivua |
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... peaceful characters in it sufficient to sustain the interest of the plot when the battles of the Great Duke are not brought on the stage . It is a great mistake to think that Wellington is only 1 The title for the first lecture ran thus ...
... peaceful characters in it sufficient to sustain the interest of the plot when the battles of the Great Duke are not brought on the stage . It is a great mistake to think that Wellington is only 1 The title for the first lecture ran thus ...
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... peace and repose . Napoleon is like a lighthouse set on some dangerous rocks , to warn others against the quicksands of selfishness and the breakers of ambition , on which himself had made such signal shipwreck . Napoleon stripped of ...
... peace and repose . Napoleon is like a lighthouse set on some dangerous rocks , to warn others against the quicksands of selfishness and the breakers of ambition , on which himself had made such signal shipwreck . Napoleon stripped of ...
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... peace , the first grace of the Chris- tian character . " When you consider the long life of Wellington , that it took in some portion of the last and the first half of the present century ; when you consider that these sixty years I ...
... peace , the first grace of the Chris- tian character . " When you consider the long life of Wellington , that it took in some portion of the last and the first half of the present century ; when you consider that these sixty years I ...
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... first and the second blossom , and to bear both the red rose of war and the white rose of peace . 1 " ... biferique rosaria Pæsti . " — Georgic iv . 119 . The former in the spring - time.of his life , 8 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON .
... first and the second blossom , and to bear both the red rose of war and the white rose of peace . 1 " ... biferique rosaria Pæsti . " — Georgic iv . 119 . The former in the spring - time.of his life , 8 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON .
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... peace . Of these two we must now choose one - the one which will profit us most to consider . Now we may wonder at ... peaceful character we may all imitate him ; and it shall be my endeavour , in touching upon his several qualities ...
... peace . Of these two we must now choose one - the one which will profit us most to consider . Now we may wonder at ... peaceful character we may all imitate him ; and it shall be my endeavour , in touching upon his several qualities ...
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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...