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... danger for so great a prize . Scaling ladders , and whatever else might be necessary , were prepared with the utmost secrecy and despatch . All the avenues to the castle were seized , that no intelligence of the design might reach the ...
... danger for so great a prize . Scaling ladders , and whatever else might be necessary , were prepared with the utmost secrecy and despatch . All the avenues to the castle were seized , that no intelligence of the design might reach the ...
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... danger . First they surmounted the opposite part of their wall with a superstructure of brick - taken from the adjacent houses , which were pulled down for the purpose - secured in a frame of timber , and shielded from fiery missiles by ...
... danger . First they surmounted the opposite part of their wall with a superstructure of brick - taken from the adjacent houses , which were pulled down for the purpose - secured in a frame of timber , and shielded from fiery missiles by ...
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... danger until battle and massacre burst forth within its very walls . It seemed to the affrighted inhabitants , as if the fiends of the air had come upon the wings of the wind , and pos- sessed themselves of tower and turret . The war ...
... danger until battle and massacre burst forth within its very walls . It seemed to the affrighted inhabitants , as if the fiends of the air had come upon the wings of the wind , and pos- sessed themselves of tower and turret . The war ...
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... danger . " Your lordship's business , " he said , " is to overlook everything , and to issue your commands . Our business is to execute those commands bravely and promptly . " Dundee answered with calm magnanimity , that there was much ...
... danger . " Your lordship's business , " he said , " is to overlook everything , and to issue your commands . Our business is to execute those commands bravely and promptly . " Dundee answered with calm magnanimity , that there was much ...
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... dangers from actual want . He instantly made the best arrangement which circumstances would admit for re- opening ... danger in renewing the attempt . After them came a convoy of artillery and a hundred beasts of burden , and a strong ...
... dangers from actual want . He instantly made the best arrangement which circumstances would admit for re- opening ... danger in renewing the attempt . After them came a convoy of artillery and a hundred beasts of burden , and a strong ...
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Page 166 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 165 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 66 - Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity: men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of our hopes, was suddenly taken from us; and it seemed as if we had never till then known how deeply we loved and reverenced him.
Page 285 - ... daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.
Page 83 - Roman empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 166 - ... for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated...
Page 137 - ... all her classes of venality. Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories — but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her.
Page 166 - You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness ; how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Page 193 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 285 - Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our...