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...ecrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost, inst... ...th wise men at weak times. Therefore we see it hath done wonders, in popular states; but with senates, and princes less; and more ever upon the first ... ...asts of wind, and secret swellings of seas before a tempest, so are there in states: —Ille etiam caecos instare tumultus Saepe monet, fraudesque et op... ...es rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deit... ...mmutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced ... ... it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but ... ...; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how many the sheep be. The army of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was such a vast sea of peo... ...ast sea of people, as it did somewhat astonish the commanders in Alexander’s army; who came to him therefore, and wished him to set upon them by night... ... Secondly, let them be prest, and ready to give aids and suc cors, to their confederates; as it ever was with the Romans; insomuch, as if the confede...

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... Gravelines (1558) Egmont made a repu- tation as one of the most brilliant generals in Europe, and became the idol of his countrymen. When in 1559 a n... ...t. Never let me hear such words again. Full well I know that the policy of statesmen rarely maintains truth and fidel- ity; that it excludes from the ... ...iately on their guard the moment he was for overstep- ping his bounds. The states were down upon him at once; for every province, however small, had i... ...y, nor increase their number, without the consent of the nobles and of the states. Mark that! Nor shall he alter the constitution of the country. Soes... ...ive place to him. I know his blood-thirsty dis- position, and he brings an army with him. Egmont. To harass the provinces anew? The people will be exa... ...er this preamble he is of opin- ion that without soldiers, without a small army indeed,—I shall always cut a sorry figure here! We did wrong, he says,... ...ple and nobles, citizens and peasants; he therefore sends, with a powerful army, the Duke of Alva. Machiavel. Alva? Regent. Y ou are surprised. Machia... ...rough the French, both royalists and heretics; through the Swiss and their confederates; main- tained the strictest discipline, and accomplished with ...

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...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...ght about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every o... ...art of the world—in England, in Australia, and in the Northern and Western States; I was thinking of this dark shadow that had oppressed every large-m... ...ened. The woods were said to be full of soldiers who had deserted from the army, and I had been told that the first thing a deserter did to a Negro bo... ...ies conquered. Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with the keenest and most intense interest. ... .... Morris K. Jessup, of New York. Dr. Curry is a native of the South, an ex-Confederate soldier, yet I do not believe there is any man in the country w... ... the members of his Cabinet, many foreign ministers, and a large number of army and navy officers, many of whom had distinguished themselves in the wa... ...brought their wives or some members of their families. Several promi- nent generals came, including General Shafter and General Joseph Wheeler, who we...

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...ral, had a right to expect. This ship was full of recruits for the Spanish army, and bound to Concepcion. Even in that destiny was an iteration, or re... ... obliged to do such things. Besides all these grounds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faith... ...ng a man. That word ‘kill’ is sprinkled *Alferez. This rank in the Spanish army is, or was, on a level with the modern sous-lieutenant of France. 101... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...at they have watched the same individual stratum or phenomenon, exhibiting states removed from each other by depths of many thousand years; how could ... ...mbled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals, and secondary diplomatists, when their date is past, awake no mor... ... combinations are found eminently successful. Having ob- tained from every confederate a pledge, in some shape or other, that he will give them his su...

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...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi... ... rela- tions, may be presented by you in chronological order, and that the states of life and feeling which afforded the examples that influenced you,... ...his sort naturally made an impression on the boy, and led him into similar states of mind. In fact, he came to the thought that he might immediately a... ...amusing to both of us.” Then she brought out some boxes, in which I saw an army of little soldiers piled one upon the other, of which I must needs con... ...ung a couple of the remaining agate balls with force into the midst of her army. Unhappily I hit the queen, who had hitherto, during our regular game,... ...about upon the golden lances. It was my fierce desire to destroy her whole army. She, on the other hand, not idle, sprang at me, and gave me a box on ... ...ught to have prayed for a blessing on us, and to have gone out to meet the generals and officers with tokens of honor and joy, and the wearied soldier... ...oy, I liked to hear related the history of these rebels,—Fettmilch and his confederates,—how they had become dissatisfied with the government of the c...

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...ghter.] “By means of Farinata degli Uberti, the Guelfi were conquered by the army of King Manfredi, near the river Arbia, with so great a slaughter, t... ...ontefeltro, who then governed it, to defeat with great slaughter the French army by which it had been besieged. See G. Villani, l. vii. c. 81. The ... ...is introduced in the Paradise, Canto XVIII. v. 13. And those the rest.] The army of Manfredi, which, through the treachery of the Apulian troops, wns... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d... ...of Marseilles, and hastened on to the attack of Afranius and Petreius, the generals of Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Albe... ...ne of the wisest and most valorous knights the best speaker, the most expert statesman, the most renowned and enterprising, man of his age in Italy, ... ...s home ‘Gainst Brennus and th’ Epirot prince, and hosts Of single chiefs, or states in league combin’d Of social warfare; hence Torquatus stern, And Q... ...ch he led to; and resum’d: “All grappling bonds, that knit the heart to God, Confederate to make fast our clarity. The being of the world, and mine ow...