The War Against the Dutch Republics in South Africa: Its Origin, Progress, and ResultsNational reform union, 1901 - 344 sider |
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The War Against the Dutch Republics in South Africa: Its Origin, Progress ... H. J. Ogden Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1901 |
The War Against the Dutch Republics in South Africa: Its Origin, Progress ... H. J. Ogden Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1901 |
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Side 200 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Side 200 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Side 200 - God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come!! 1 repeat it,...
Side 301 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Side 328 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Side 184 - of the French, ' there are successively selected, during the French war, ' say thirty able-bodied men : Dumdrudge, at her own ' expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not ' without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood...
Side 165 - In a just and necessary war to maintain the rights or honor of my country, I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjust in its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its consequences, I would not contribute a single effort, nor a single shilling.
Side 277 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Side 114 - Any compulsion of the population of occupied territory to take part in military operations against its own country is prohibited.
Side 207 - I would say this : that, if those acquisitions were as valuable as they are valueless, I would repudiate them, because they are obtained by means dishonourable to the character of our country.