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... consider the matter , in a pecuniary point of view , as an affair of pounds , shillings , and pence only . Suppose the preliminary war - contri- bution of £ 100,000,000 levied in a single year on Great Britain , ( for even the French ...
... consider the matter , in a pecuniary point of view , as an affair of pounds , shillings , and pence only . Suppose the preliminary war - contri- bution of £ 100,000,000 levied in a single year on Great Britain , ( for even the French ...
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... consider the amount of the regular force at our disposal to resist such an attempt . We shall afterwards con- sider what aid is to be relied on from the irregular auxiliaries whom we hear so much of , and what can , with their present ...
... consider the amount of the regular force at our disposal to resist such an attempt . We shall afterwards con- sider what aid is to be relied on from the irregular auxiliaries whom we hear so much of , and what can , with their present ...
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... considering how much more exposed to danger she is than either our Indian empire or Afri- can possessions ? It is not the Sikhs , with a population of six millions - it is not the Caffres , with twenty or thirty thousand fighting men ...
... considering how much more exposed to danger she is than either our Indian empire or Afri- can possessions ? It is not the Sikhs , with a population of six millions - it is not the Caffres , with twenty or thirty thousand fighting men ...
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... consider that she is not in- vulnerable . Steam - navigation , railroads , and the electric telegraph , he continues , have powerfully increased her defensive resources ; but at the same time they increase the means of attacking her ...
... consider that she is not in- vulnerable . Steam - navigation , railroads , and the electric telegraph , he continues , have powerfully increased her defensive resources ; but at the same time they increase the means of attacking her ...
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... consider no settle- ment as final , and practically show that they look upon no contract between the States as binding , which may stand in the way of what they call a Higher Law . This body has hitherto been in a minority in Con- gress ...
... consider no settle- ment as final , and practically show that they look upon no contract between the States as binding , which may stand in the way of what they call a Higher Law . This body has hitherto been in a minority in Con- gress ...
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Seite 382 - This downfall; since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.
Seite 134 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Seite 382 - From what height fallen, so much the stronger proved He with his thunder : and till then who knew The force of those dire arms...
Seite 388 - A shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Seite 384 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Seite 382 - That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate, Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat...
Seite 384 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Seite 387 - Waved round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile...
Seite 561 - Coffee and tea, when imported direct from the place of their growth or production in American vessels, or in foreign vessels entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from discriminating duties, tonnage, and other charges.
Seite 384 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be it so, since He Who now is...