Garibaldi: His Life and Times: Comprising the Revolutionary History of Italy from 1789 to the Present TimeS.O. Beeton, 1864 - 244 pages |
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... bayonets of Bonaparte or those of Austria . The right of Italy is still intact , and might be put in force by asking the Roman people again to declare their wishes by a direct vote ; until a revocation of that act , I am the legal ...
... bayonets of Bonaparte or those of Austria . The right of Italy is still intact , and might be put in force by asking the Roman people again to declare their wishes by a direct vote ; until a revocation of that act , I am the legal ...
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... bayonets , which were held by strong and resolute arms . In this manner they gained the belt of trees that appeared ... bayonet on foot . When the little band had entered the belt of trees , Garibaldi found , to his great surprise and ...
... bayonets , which were held by strong and resolute arms . In this manner they gained the belt of trees that appeared ... bayonet on foot . When the little band had entered the belt of trees , Garibaldi found , to his great surprise and ...
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... bayonet . Simultaneously with this movement , General Canavaro , with his black lancers , dashed at the enemy's right wing with the rapidity and force of a thunderbolt , and the Imperialists fell back , leaving General Calderon on the ...
... bayonet . Simultaneously with this movement , General Canavaro , with his black lancers , dashed at the enemy's right wing with the rapidity and force of a thunderbolt , and the Imperialists fell back , leaving General Calderon on the ...
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... bayonet in the rank black earth that fed the forest- trees , and dashing the salt tears from his aching eyes , to gaze once more on the face of her who had been all in all to him , before the mould that he was about to heap on her ...
... bayonet in the rank black earth that fed the forest- trees , and dashing the salt tears from his aching eyes , to gaze once more on the face of her who had been all in all to him , before the mould that he was about to heap on her ...
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... bayonet , the next time that any of Oribe's soldiers marched towards the city . A large force was seen approaching the lines on the following day , and the Italian legion were ordered to advance and drive them back . They started to do ...
... bayonet , the next time that any of Oribe's soldiers marched towards the city . A large force was seen approaching the lines on the following day , and the Italian legion were ordered to advance and drive them back . They started to do ...
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Page 73 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 118 - ... 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.
Page 164 - It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness, without a place ; There were no stars, no earth, no time, No check, no change, no good, no crime, But silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless mute, and motionless!
Page 168 - Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe, When the travail of the Ages wrings earth's systems to and fro; At the birth of each new Era, with a recognizing start, Nation wildly looks at nation, standing with mute lips apart, And glad Truth's yet mightier man-child leaps beneath the Future's heart.
Page 118 - 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 midday beam...
Page 63 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 168 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean-sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 9 - It is said, however, that he had pledged himself, in 1815, to the emperors of Russia and Austria, and the king of Prussia...
Page 160 - I have already said, had been chained together the informer Margherita and one of his victims. Among these, I myself saw a political prisoner, Romeo, chained in the manner I have described, to an ordinary offender, a young man with one of the most ferocious and sullen countenances I have seen among many hundreds of the Neapolitan criminals.
Page 161 - M. — They will, provided the Sovereign shall have granted and ratified them freely. Otherwise they will not ; because the people, which is made for submission and not for command, cannot impose a law upon the Sovereignty, which derives its power not from them, but from God.