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... whole race . And , unhappily , the imprint of such a career will be equally deep , whether its tendency be for evil or for good . The example of successful war , waged for no end but a selfish thirst for plunder and renown , will be ...
... whole race . And , unhappily , the imprint of such a career will be equally deep , whether its tendency be for evil or for good . The example of successful war , waged for no end but a selfish thirst for plunder and renown , will be ...
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... whole tenor of his policy . He has been strenuously educating his subjects to love war and to seek for conquest ; he has been unteaching them the bourgeois taste for peaceful commerce , which Louis Philippe was so anxious to instil ...
... whole tenor of his policy . He has been strenuously educating his subjects to love war and to seek for conquest ; he has been unteaching them the bourgeois taste for peaceful commerce , which Louis Philippe was so anxious to instil ...
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... whole of his long and restless reign ; and the seizure of Alsace during time of peace - one of the most outrageous of his many violations of the law of nations - shows the value he attached to it . Napoleon , having once conquered it ...
... whole of his long and restless reign ; and the seizure of Alsace during time of peace - one of the most outrageous of his many violations of the law of nations - shows the value he attached to it . Napoleon , having once conquered it ...
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... whole , but a weakly - cemented conglomerate of two or three real kingdoms and some three hundred microscopic states . The result of this arrangement was to generate a multiplicity of dynastic feuds , and to elevate every petty local ...
... whole , but a weakly - cemented conglomerate of two or three real kingdoms and some three hundred microscopic states . The result of this arrangement was to generate a multiplicity of dynastic feuds , and to elevate every petty local ...
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... whole life . By what double dealing he was tempted or goaded into perpetrating the fatal act of aggression , which he never could honourably retract , and in which the Western powers could scarcely with honour have acquiesced , is no ...
... whole life . By what double dealing he was tempted or goaded into perpetrating the fatal act of aggression , which he never could honourably retract , and in which the Western powers could scarcely with honour have acquiesced , is no ...
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Página 165 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Página 58 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Página 193 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Página 227 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Página 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Página 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Página 189 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea...