The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen116A. Constable, 1862 |
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... once , to cut him off from Lisbon if possible , and with the auxiliary force of Moore , which he wished to be placed on the line of the Tagus , to intercept the retreat of the French , and thus to complete the ruin of their army . This ...
... once , to cut him off from Lisbon if possible , and with the auxiliary force of Moore , which he wished to be placed on the line of the Tagus , to intercept the retreat of the French , and thus to complete the ruin of their army . This ...
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... once Mont Rave had been taken by the Allies , the whole position became un- tenable . The concurring testimony of Wellington is decisive : — ' M. Choumara pretends that the position of Toulouse was the whole position that is to say ...
... once Mont Rave had been taken by the Allies , the whole position became un- tenable . The concurring testimony of Wellington is decisive : — ' M. Choumara pretends that the position of Toulouse was the whole position that is to say ...
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... once reject . From known facts we may , if we can , draw a new inference . We may rehabilitate Themistocles , or Henry VIII . , or Frederic the Great ; or we may bring forward new evidence to prove that the verdict of a former age is ...
... once reject . From known facts we may , if we can , draw a new inference . We may rehabilitate Themistocles , or Henry VIII . , or Frederic the Great ; or we may bring forward new evidence to prove that the verdict of a former age is ...
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... once determined , if the old writing had been easily legible . But here lay the great mystery . The system was clearly a highly complicated one : how complicated , it was impossible to judge . To apply the analogy of cipher - writing ...
... once determined , if the old writing had been easily legible . But here lay the great mystery . The system was clearly a highly complicated one : how complicated , it was impossible to judge . To apply the analogy of cipher - writing ...
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... once the type of party in our modern history , but who now belongs less to party than to the nation . Above the feverish contests of his hour the imposing figure of William Pitt has risen into per- manent greatness ; showing how far he ...
... once the type of party in our modern history , but who now belongs less to party than to the nation . Above the feverish contests of his hour the imposing figure of William Pitt has risen into per- manent greatness ; showing how far he ...
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Página 389 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Página 552 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 393 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the...
Página 552 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was.
Página 127 - Their first step was to circulate among the Members of the House of Commons a paper entitled ' The Case of the Protestant Dissenters with reference to the Corporation and Test Acts,' in which they more especially laboured to distinguish their case from that of the Roman Catholics.
Página 562 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Página 552 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 134 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.