The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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Page 75
... idea would be correct . In that case , Marshal Soult must have been prepared with means of all descriptions to enable him to remain in the town . Even in that case the possession of Mont Calvinet would have given the Allies the means of ...
... idea would be correct . In that case , Marshal Soult must have been prepared with means of all descriptions to enable him to remain in the town . Even in that case the possession of Mont Calvinet would have given the Allies the means of ...
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... ideas and future decisions on the most important points ? This I shall hereafter more plainly elucidate . ' ( Vol . viii . p . 498. ) The sword , however , was thrown into the balance , and the invasion of France determined by the ...
... ideas and future decisions on the most important points ? This I shall hereafter more plainly elucidate . ' ( Vol . viii . p . 498. ) The sword , however , was thrown into the balance , and the invasion of France determined by the ...
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... idea can be formed of the greatness of Wellington as a commander without consulting such records as these ; and in this respect , as well as in judgment and forethought , he was not surpassed by any general of ancient or modern times ...
... idea can be formed of the greatness of Wellington as a commander without consulting such records as these ; and in this respect , as well as in judgment and forethought , he was not surpassed by any general of ancient or modern times ...
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... ideas on history generally and on Egypt's place in that history , -if we can accept a method which from several dates assigned to a king selects one , and then , finding the name of that king on a monument , assigns the latter to the ...
... ideas on history generally and on Egypt's place in that history , -if we can accept a method which from several dates assigned to a king selects one , and then , finding the name of that king on a monument , assigns the latter to the ...
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... ideas of the essential power and virtues of numbers . Like Anaximenes , Anaxagoras , the teacher and friend of Pericles , held that the earth was a plane , and believed the sun to be a mass of ignited stone larger than the Pelopon ...
... ideas of the essential power and virtues of numbers . Like Anaximenes , Anaxagoras , the teacher and friend of Pericles , held that the earth was a plane , and believed the sun to be a mass of ignited stone larger than the Pelopon ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.