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Сторінка 416 - God ; the feeble hands which are unequal to any other weapon will grasp the sword of the Spirit ; and from myriads of humble, contrite hearts, the voice of intercession, supplication, and weeping, will mingle in its ascent to heaven with the shouts of battle and the shock of arms.
Сторінка 415 - ... superstition, and invited the nations to behold their God ; whose magic touch kindled the rays of genius, the enthusiasm of poetry, and the flame of eloquence ; the freedom which poured into our lap opulence and arts, and embellished life with innumerable institutions and improvements, till it became a theatre of wonders ; it is for you to decide, whether this freedom shall yet survive, or be covered with a funeral pall, and wrapt in eternal gloom.
Сторінка 417 - While you have everything to fear from the success of the enemy, you have every means of preventing that success, so that it is next to impossible for victory not to crown your exertions. The extent of your resources, under God, is equal to the justice of your cause. '
Сторінка 290 - I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of tide, with any wind, and in any weather...
Сторінка 114 - Soldiers ! You are one of the wings of the army of England. You have made war in mountains, plains, and cities. It remains to make it on the ocean. The Roman legions, whom you have often imitated, but not yet equalled', combated Carthage, by turns, on the seas and on the plains of Zama.
Сторінка 418 - Ruler among the children of men, to whom the shields of the earth belong, — Gird on thy sword, thou most Mighty. Go forth with our hosts in the day of battle ! Impart, in addition to their hereditary valour, that confidence of success which springs from thy presence...
Сторінка 291 - Poland, is reduced to its territorial limits as they stood in 1792. Do we suppose that we should be allowed to keep — could we advance a pretension to keep — more than the islands composing the United Kingdom, ceding disgracefully the Channel Islands, on which an invader had never established himself since the period of the Norman Conquest?
Сторінка 356 - ... expensive contest ; then would his Majesty's subjects discover what are the miseries of war, of which, by the blessing of God, they have hitherto had no knowledge; and the cultivation, the beauty, and prosperity of the country, and the virtue and happiness of its inhabitants would be destroyed, whatever might be the result of the military operations. God forbid that I should be a witness, much less an actor in the scene...
Сторінка 144 - Finances founded on a flourishing agriculture can never be destroyed. To take from France her colonies ? The colonies are to France only a secondary object ; and does not your majesty already possess more than you know how to preserve ? If your majesty would but reflect, you must perceive that the war is without an object, without any presumable result to yourself.
Сторінка 142 - Sir and Brother, — Called to the throne of France by Providence, and by the suffrages of the Senate, the People and the Army, my first sentiment is a wish for peace. France and England abuse their prosperity. They may contend for ages ; but do their governments well fulfil the most sacred of their duties? and will not so much blood, shed uselessly, and without a view to any end, condemn them in their own conscience ? I consider it as no disgrace to make the first step.