The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth CenturyJ. S. Waters, 1852 - 450 Seiten |
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... despotic military monar- chies - but their thrones are not beds of roses . The people of both are alive with hostile hopes and fermenting with pent up energies and fiery wrath . They restlessly heave beneath the military weight which ...
... despotic military monar- chies - but their thrones are not beds of roses . The people of both are alive with hostile hopes and fermenting with pent up energies and fiery wrath . They restlessly heave beneath the military weight which ...
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... despotic ambition , wielding absolute power with a miserly devotion to accumulation of territory and power - pitilessly exact- ing the utmost interest in every investment in human life unterrified by the flow of blood- with a single ...
... despotic ambition , wielding absolute power with a miserly devotion to accumulation of territory and power - pitilessly exact- ing the utmost interest in every investment in human life unterrified by the flow of blood- with a single ...
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... despotic princes , to annul the ambiguous stipulations of the Federation . The jealousy of Western Europe , unable to wrest Poland from the Czar , strove to prevent the consoli- dation of its provinces with his empire . They demanded ...
... despotic princes , to annul the ambiguous stipulations of the Federation . The jealousy of Western Europe , unable to wrest Poland from the Czar , strove to prevent the consoli- dation of its provinces with his empire . They demanded ...
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... despotic and unlimited power ; that the two could not dwell together in unity or in peace . The Kings and Autocrats reasoned with the ordinary strength of royal minds - like children pur- suing their fancies as facts of history ...
... despotic and unlimited power ; that the two could not dwell together in unity or in peace . The Kings and Autocrats reasoned with the ordinary strength of royal minds - like children pur- suing their fancies as facts of history ...
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... despotic in form , yet struggling to be free . The Diet was to Germany what the Holy Alliance was to Europe . The sovereigns dispersed from Vienna and went on their way rejoicing in the prospect of a golden age of patriarchal rule and ...
... despotic in form , yet struggling to be free . The Diet was to Germany what the Holy Alliance was to Europe . The sovereigns dispersed from Vienna and went on their way rejoicing in the prospect of a golden age of patriarchal rule and ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 404 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness...
Seite 421 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 402 - The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellowmen on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Seite 386 - With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Seite 402 - This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defence of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.
Seite 414 - ... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice shall counsel.
Seite 402 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense.
Seite 403 - But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Seite 381 - Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Seite 403 - The late events in Spain and Portugal show that Europe is still unsettled. Of this important fact no stronger proof can be adduced than that the allied powers should have thought it proper, on a principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed by force in the internal concerns of Spain.