William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of Social and Political Progress, Volumes 3-4Blackie, 1883 - Great Britain |
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... Military Reserve Force at Malta , 126 . 126 An English Christmas before Sebastopol , 126 Construction of a Railway between Balaklava and the Camp - Telegraphic Communica- tion with England established , Balaklava in February 1856 ...
... Military Reserve Force at Malta , 126 . 126 An English Christmas before Sebastopol , 126 Construction of a Railway between Balaklava and the Camp - Telegraphic Communica- tion with England established , Balaklava in February 1856 ...
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... military architecture , mathematics , and music . He was passionately fond of dramatic performances , and is said to have assisted the Russian poet Nestor Koukoluik in the com- position of some of his pieces , and to have repeatedly ...
... military architecture , mathematics , and music . He was passionately fond of dramatic performances , and is said to have assisted the Russian poet Nestor Koukoluik in the com- position of some of his pieces , and to have repeatedly ...
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... military organization , were all remarkable . There never was a sovereign who was so con- stantly employed as the Czar Nicholas , and this may have prevented the development of that insanity which had more than once shown itself in the ...
... military organization , were all remarkable . There never was a sovereign who was so con- stantly employed as the Czar Nicholas , and this may have prevented the development of that insanity which had more than once shown itself in the ...
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... is recorded that when the military insurrection broke out in St. Petersburg after the death of the emperor Alexander the First , the new czar repaired with his wife to the chapel of the palace before putting himself at the head.
... is recorded that when the military insurrection broke out in St. Petersburg after the death of the emperor Alexander the First , the new czar repaired with his wife to the chapel of the palace before putting himself at the head.
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... military ability and some brilliant exploits in Syria , Albania , Koordistan , and Bosnia . He had professedly embraced the Mohammedan tenets , but it needed all his great talents and repeated successes to enable him to hold his own ...
... military ability and some brilliant exploits in Syria , Albania , Koordistan , and Bosnia . He had professedly embraced the Mohammedan tenets , but it needed all his great talents and repeated successes to enable him to hold his own ...
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Page 54 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 137 - It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.
Page 98 - I say, I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
Page 97 - I have another objection, and that is that it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved...
Page 155 - The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the firstborn were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and the lowly, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.
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Page 111 - Now, in order that none of our subjects may unwarily render themselves liable to the penalties imposed by the said statute, we do hereby strictly command, that no person or persons whatsoever do commit any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, contrary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain of the several penalties by the said statute imposed, and of our high displeasure. And we do hereby further warn...
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Page 220 - We stand with it now; we may fall with it a short time hence. If we do so fall, we, or others in our places, shall rise with it hereafter. I shall not attempt to measure with precision the forces that are to be arrayed against us in the coming issue.
Page 145 - The sea-kings' daughter as happy as fair, Blissful bride of a blissful heir, Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea— O joy to the people and joy to the throne, Come to us, love us and make us your own : For Saxon or Dane or Norman we, Teuton or Celt, or whatever we be, We are each all Dane in our welcome of thee, Alexandra!