Pictures from the Battle FieldsRoutledge, 1855 - Počet stran: 259 |
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... idea of the state of our affairs in the East than the dry details of battles and sieges , as bloody as useless , or the terrible story of a campaign which can only sully our annals and sadden our hearts . If this object should not ...
... idea of the state of our affairs in the East than the dry details of battles and sieges , as bloody as useless , or the terrible story of a campaign which can only sully our annals and sadden our hearts . If this object should not ...
Strana xiii
... idea of his personal importance . No sane man can seriously assert or maintain the contrary . No national respect for ancient tradition , no adulation of rank , however sincere , and it may surely be added , no education , however ...
... idea of his personal importance . No sane man can seriously assert or maintain the contrary . No national respect for ancient tradition , no adulation of rank , however sincere , and it may surely be added , no education , however ...
Strana 20
... ideas , for he was a determined enemy of progress . Enough . What shall be done now ? Are we to have more roastings , and ship burnings , enlivened by the sale of young ladies by auction in the bazaars of Smyrna and Constantinople ? Or ...
... ideas , for he was a determined enemy of progress . Enough . What shall be done now ? Are we to have more roastings , and ship burnings , enlivened by the sale of young ladies by auction in the bazaars of Smyrna and Constantinople ? Or ...
Strana 24
... idea of mutual concessions to scorn . The great British embarrasser at Constantinople should be allowed to wreak his ill - temper on friends and foes , while we would stand applauding at a respectful distance . The Emperor of Russia ...
... idea of mutual concessions to scorn . The great British embarrasser at Constantinople should be allowed to wreak his ill - temper on friends and foes , while we would stand applauding at a respectful distance . The Emperor of Russia ...
Strana 28
... ideas of most of the practical men mixed up in Eastern affairs . Such men contend that the wrongs of the Rayahs were the strongest arm of Russia - and , therefore , immediately affairs grew serious ; the emancipation of the sixteen ...
... ideas of most of the practical men mixed up in Eastern affairs . Such men contend that the wrongs of the Rayahs were the strongest arm of Russia - and , therefore , immediately affairs grew serious ; the emancipation of the sixteen ...
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Strana 22 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Strana 22 - Wordsworth, Lord Macaulay ; with a General Index. The articles are chiefly selected so as to afford a succession of graphic parts of English History, chronologically arranged, from the consideration that the portions of history upon which general readers delight to dwell are those which tell some story which is complete in itself, or furnish some illustration which has a separate as well as a general interest.
Strana 7 - ... equal mastership of art. Here — lively and sparkling fancies; there — vigorous passion or practical wisdom— these works abound in illustrations that teach benevolence to the rich, and courage to the poor ; they glow with the love of freedom; they speak a sympathy with all high aspirations, and all manly struggle: and| where, in their more tragic portraitures, they depict the dread images of guilt and woe, they so clear our judgment by profound analysis, while they move our hearts by terror...
Strana 2 - Prescott's works, in point of style, rank with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson's cadence and Gibbon's brilliancy."— Athenosum.
Strana 5 - Edition, with Continuation to the Death of Wellington. With Portraits of all the Sovereigns. " In this edition, the editor has added some facts which had been overlooked...
Strana v - ... and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Strana 4 - Including their Church and State, the Re-organization of the Inquisition, the Rise, Progress, and Consolidation of the Jesuits, and the means taken to effect the Counter-Reformation in Germany, to revive Romanism in France, and to suppress Protestant Principles in the South of Europe. Translated from the last edition of the German by WALTER K. KELLY, of Trinity College, Dublin. " This translation of Ranke we consider to be very superior to any other In the English language.
Strana 21 - Railroads, steamboats, and other rapid conveyances, which have added so largely to urban populations, have, at the same time, afforded the means to a numerous body, whose industry is carried forward in town, of seeking for health and amusement in rural purtuits.
Strana 10 - Certainly no custom was ever more popular ; the fame of it is bruited throughout the length and breadth of the land. It is a subject that gives excellent scope to a writer of fiction : and Mr. Ainsworth, by skilful treatment, has rendered it most entertaining. The materials are put together with dramatic force.
Strana 24 - Great Battles of the British Army." In One Volume, price 4s. 6d., cloth gilt, GREAT BATTLES OF THE BRITISH ARMY. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. Illustrated by W. Harvey. " At the present moment, when every one, from the highest to the lowest in the land, is intensely interested in all that relates to the army now engaged in the East, a work relating the struggles in which their fathers were engaged cannot but be eagerly read. This new edition is rendered still more attractive by an...