Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson, Russell, Cobden, Peel, Shaftesbury, Palmerston, Gladstone, Disraeli |
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... never aggressive , and in the opinion of many , it was lacking in the assertion of British rights . Thus , in 1871 , when Russia refused to be bound longer by the treaty stipulations forbidding her to maintain a war fleet on the Euxine ...
... never aggressive , and in the opinion of many , it was lacking in the assertion of British rights . Thus , in 1871 , when Russia refused to be bound longer by the treaty stipulations forbidding her to maintain a war fleet on the Euxine ...
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... never was a time in the history of this country when , from the situ- ation of Europe , we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace , than at the present moment . " Yet within a twelvemonth after this utterance , apparently ...
... never was a time in the history of this country when , from the situ- ation of Europe , we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace , than at the present moment . " Yet within a twelvemonth after this utterance , apparently ...
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... never prevail in Europe so long as England had the power to disturb it , and all parties in England were resolved to combat to the last the establishment of a vast and menacing military despotism beyond the Straits of Dover . It The ...
... never prevail in Europe so long as England had the power to disturb it , and all parties in England were resolved to combat to the last the establishment of a vast and menacing military despotism beyond the Straits of Dover . It The ...
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... never recovered , and thenceforward he could do little to support his eagles in the peninsula . The recall of Soult further weakened the resistance . In May , Welling- ton bade farewell to Portugal and recrossed the Spanish frontier ...
... never recovered , and thenceforward he could do little to support his eagles in the peninsula . The recall of Soult further weakened the resistance . In May , Welling- ton bade farewell to Portugal and recrossed the Spanish frontier ...
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... never been under fire . Napoleon's plan was to thrust his army between Blücher and Wellington and defeat them in succession . On the evening of June 15th , news was brought to the Duke at Brussels that the enemy had passed the frontier ...
... never been under fire . Napoleon's plan was to thrust his army between Blücher and Wellington and defeat them in succession . On the evening of June 15th , news was brought to the Duke at Brussels that the enemy had passed the frontier ...
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Page 235 - Valor of delicate women who tended the hospital bed, Horror of women in travail among the dying and dead, Grief for our perishing children, and never a moment for grief, Toil and ineffable weariness, faltering hopes of relief...
Page 188 - Tho' all men else their nobler dreams forget Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers ; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers, We have a voice, with which to pay the debt Of boundless love and reverence and regret • To those great men who fought, and kept it ours. And keep it ours...
Page 190 - Uplifted high in heart and hope are we, Until we doubt not that for one so true There must be other nobler work to do Than when he fought at Waterloo; And Victor he must ever be, For tho' the Giant Ages heave the hill And break the shore, and evermore Make and break and work their will; Tho...
Page 187 - With blare of bugle, clamour of men, Roll of cannon and clash of arms, And England pouring on her foes. Such a war had such a close. Again their ravening eagle rose In anger...