Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman1853 |
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... happy to announce that I have received Kossuth's written approval and thanks . Mere quaintness of expression I have by no means desired entirely to remove , where it involved nothing grotesque , obscure , or monotonous . In several ...
... happy to announce that I have received Kossuth's written approval and thanks . Mere quaintness of expression I have by no means desired entirely to remove , where it involved nothing grotesque , obscure , or monotonous . In several ...
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... happy turning - point in the destinies of the world . I bring you a brotherly greeting from the people of Great Britain . speak not in an official character , imparted by diplomacy , whose secrecy is the curse of the world , but I am ...
... happy turning - point in the destinies of the world . I bring you a brotherly greeting from the people of Great Britain . speak not in an official character , imparted by diplomacy , whose secrecy is the curse of the world , but I am ...
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... happy to state that I have lost nothing by this avowal there . I hope I shall not lose here , in republican America , by that frankness , which must be one of the chief qualities of every republican . So I beg leave openly to state the ...
... happy to state that I have lost nothing by this avowal there . I hope I shall not lose here , in republican America , by that frankness , which must be one of the chief qualities of every republican . So I beg leave openly to state the ...
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... happy rest -I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction , but as a humble petitioner , in my country's name , as its freely chosen constitutional leader , to entreat your generous aid . I have no other claims than those which ...
... happy rest -I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction , but as a humble petitioner , in my country's name , as its freely chosen constitutional leader , to entreat your generous aid . I have no other claims than those which ...
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... nation . The wisdom of the founders of your great republic you see in its happy results . What would be the conse- quences of departing from that wisdom , you are not sure . 32 POLICY NOT A PRINCIPLE . You therefore instinctively fear.
... nation . The wisdom of the founders of your great republic you see in its happy results . What would be the conse- quences of departing from that wisdom , you are not sure . 32 POLICY NOT A PRINCIPLE . You therefore instinctively fear.
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Página 32 - 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.
Página 66 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Página 208 - Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it: having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic!! feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited, whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Página 275 - Britain will be long watching for advantages, to recover what she has lost. If we do not convince the world, that we are a nation to be depended on for fidelity in treaties; if we appear negligent in paying our debts, and ungrateful to those who have served and befriended us ; our reputation, and all the strength it is capable of procuring, will be lost, and fresh attacks upon us will be encouraged and promoted by better prospects of success.
Página 243 - ROUTES OF THE JEWISH MERCHANTS CALLED AL-RADHANIYYA These merchants speak Arabic, Persian, Roman,62 Prankish, Spanish, and Slavonic. They travel from the East to the West and from the West to the East by land as well as by sea.
Página 15 - Hungary — further, by compassing the destruction of the independence of the country by arms, and by calling in the disciplined army of a foreign power, for the purpose of annihilating its nationality, by violation both of the Pragmatic Sanction and of treaties concluded between Austria and Hungary, on which the alliance between the two countries depended — is, as treacherous and perjured...
Página 112 - With self-government is freedom, and with freedom is justice and patriotism. With centralization is ambition, and with ambition dwells despotism. Happy your great country, Sir, for being so warmly addicted to that great principle of selfgovernment. Upon this foundation your fathers raised a home to freedom more glorious than the world has ever seen. Upon this foundation you have developed it to a living wonder of the world. Happy your great country, Sir, that it was selected by the blessing of the...
Página 10 - Lorraine-Hapsburg, restored to confidence by that victory, thought the time come to take off the mask, and to involve Hungary, still bleeding from past wounds, in the horrors of a fresh war of oppression. The king from that moment began to address the man, whom he himself had branded as a rebel, as
Página 16 - Europe, declares it to be its intention to establish and maintain friendly and neighbourly relations with those states with which it was formerly united under the same sovereign, as well as to contract alliances with all other nations. 4th. The form of government to be adopted for the future will be fixed by the Diet of the nation.