Category: History - British
No people ever was and remained free, but because it was determined to be so; because neither its rulers nor any other party in the nation could compel it to be otherwise. If a people--especially one whose freedom has not yet become prescriptive--does not value it sufficiently...
No people ever was and remained free, but because it was determined to be so; because neither its rulers nor any other party in the nation could compel it to be otherwise. If a...
2. CHAPTER II.Little was known of the new king, who was only twenty-four years old when he came to the throne, and had seldom appeared in public. His manners were grave and cold; he loved ord...
3. CHAPTER III.CREON. For my behoof I have right to rule this land. HAEMON. It is no state where all belongs to one. CREON. Is not the state the sovereign’s property? HAEMON. A manless state h...
4. CHAPTER IV.Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.--HENRY VIII., iii. 2.
5. CHAPTER V.* * It is not so, thou hast misspoke, misheard; Be well advised, tell o’er thy tale again: It cannot be; thou dost but say ’tis so: I trust I may not trust thee; for thy word Is...
6. CHAPTER VI.They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder, A dreary sea now flows between,-- But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away,...
7. CHAPTER VII.The communities of Greece suffered all the embittering results of civil strife that visit men, and always will visit them, so long as human nature remains the same, though with...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The army, re-modelled at Windsor, was reduced, according to the ordinance, to a body of 21,000 men--14,000 foot, 6000 horse, 1000 dragoons. Though a smaller, it was a far more f...
9. CHAPTER IX.O wad some pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursel’s as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An’ foolish notion; What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An’ e’en d...
10. CHAPTER X.The ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom; it...
11. CHAPTER XI.You are doubtless aware that the varieties of human character must involve a corresponding number of constitutions. Or do you think that the constitutions we see are foundlings...
12. CHAPTER XII.The Commons now formally abolished the House of Lords (19th March), and settled the government as a ‘commonwealth or free state’ (19th May, 1649). A Republican government is mor...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since what to one race of people, of a certai...
14. CHAPTER XIV.I will discover to you a political secret, which must ere long be made public. Capo d’Istria cannot long continue to administer the affairs of Greece; he wants one requisite ind...
15. CHAPTER XV.Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough’d...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Quand on se trompe dans quelque projet pour sa fortune, ce n’est qu’un coup d’épée dans l’eau; mais dans les entreprises de l’Etat, il n’y a pas de coup d’épée dans l’eau.--MONT...