The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth CenturyJ. S. Waters, 1852 - 450 Seiten |
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... constitution on which she founded her hopes for the future . The Romish Church displayed its per- secuting propensities by way of complicating the puzzling drama ; patriotism drove noble - minded Poles to defend the acts of their ...
... constitution on which she founded her hopes for the future . The Romish Church displayed its per- secuting propensities by way of complicating the puzzling drama ; patriotism drove noble - minded Poles to defend the acts of their ...
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... constitution of government . It may be by tacit acquiescence , by historical development , by formal enactment ; but however it may be , it is the will of the nation , express or implied , which gives it legitimacy . Absolute power in ...
... constitution of government . It may be by tacit acquiescence , by historical development , by formal enactment ; but however it may be , it is the will of the nation , express or implied , which gives it legitimacy . Absolute power in ...
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... constitution can bind them : for it is only a law , and that the sovereign power may change at will - as our people , their constitution . They are likewise absurd : for their purpose is to control irresponsible power ; and by the ...
... constitution can bind them : for it is only a law , and that the sovereign power may change at will - as our people , their constitution . They are likewise absurd : for their purpose is to control irresponsible power ; and by the ...
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... constitution . We may adopt a monarchy to - day , a republic to - morrow ; and no one can impeach our caprice or our discretion . If the King be sovereign , he is equally uncontrolla- ble . He can make no bargain with his people - for ...
... constitution . We may adopt a monarchy to - day , a republic to - morrow ; and no one can impeach our caprice or our discretion . If the King be sovereign , he is equally uncontrolla- ble . He can make no bargain with his people - for ...
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... constitution : and they were admonished that to remind a King of his promises implied a doubt of his royal word . He repelled the imputa- tion - by proving its truth . The assembly of States failed to find a place in the dominions of ...
... constitution : and they were admonished that to remind a King of his promises implied a doubt of his royal word . He repelled the imputa- tion - by proving its truth . The assembly of States failed to find a place in the dominions of ...
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absolute power affairs ambition American arms army assault Assembly Austria Austrian Empire battle blood cause civil confederation constitution contest Cortes court Croatia crown Czar dangerous declared defend despotic power devotion dictate Diet Emperor empire England Europe European existence fate fear foes force foreign France Frankfort Frankfort Parliament freedom French frontier Germany Görgey guard hands Holy Alliance Holy Allies hostility house of Hapsburg Hungarian Hungary Imperial independence interests Jellachich King King of Prussia kingdom Kremsir liberal liberty Louis Napoleon Louis Philippe March ment Metternich military ministry moderate monarch Naples nation Nicholas numbers oppressed Ottoman Empire outrage overthrow peace Poland political popular pretext princes principles protection provinces refused repel Republic revolution revolutionary royal ruin rule rulers Russia safety sovereign sovereignty Spain Spanish spirit success suppression sword territory threatened throne tion treaty treaty of Adrianople triumph troops usurpation victory Vienna
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 404 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness...
Seite 421 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 402 - The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellowmen on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Seite 421 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 381 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Seite 349 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Seite 402 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense.
Seite 403 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its Powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us...
Seite 403 - But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.
Seite 403 - The late events in Spain and Portugal show that Europe is still unsettled. Of this important fact no stronger proof can be adduced than that the allied powers should have thought it proper, on a principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed by force in the internal concerns of Spain.