The Southern Review, Volumen5Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick Bledsoe and Browne, 1869 |
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... country in Europe . In Lee's case , his enemy had possession of the sea , and could and did land a powerful army to attack the very basis of his operations , while he was fighting another of 38 [ Jan. Waterloo - Napoleon and Wellington .
... country in Europe . In Lee's case , his enemy had possession of the sea , and could and did land a powerful army to attack the very basis of his operations , while he was fighting another of 38 [ Jan. Waterloo - Napoleon and Wellington .
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... attack them ; that his only hope lay in separating them , and attacking them in detail . The problem for them to solve was concentration ; the problem for him to solve was the attack in detail . Did they pursue the best policy to ensure ...
... attack them ; that his only hope lay in separating them , and attacking them in detail . The problem for them to solve was concentration ; the problem for him to solve was the attack in detail . Did they pursue the best policy to ensure ...
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... attack from and almost in the presence of , such an enemy as Napoleon , with his whole force concentrated and prepared for immediate action . It combined all the defects which had so often led to the destruc- tion of large armies of his ...
... attack from and almost in the presence of , such an enemy as Napoleon , with his whole force concentrated and prepared for immediate action . It combined all the defects which had so often led to the destruc- tion of large armies of his ...
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... attack them , or , if he had , must have been destroyed . The plan pointed out by Napoleon involving the abandonment of Brussels , and the retention of that capital being a great point in the defence made for Wel- lington by his ...
... attack them , or , if he had , must have been destroyed . The plan pointed out by Napoleon involving the abandonment of Brussels , and the retention of that capital being a great point in the defence made for Wel- lington by his ...
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... attacking Les Matre Bras , twelve miles distant , at the intersection of the roads from Nivelles to Namur , and from Charleroi to Brussels , a point of the utmost importance , since upon it depended the communication between the head ...
... attacking Les Matre Bras , twelve miles distant , at the intersection of the roads from Nivelles to Namur , and from Charleroi to Brussels , a point of the utmost importance , since upon it depended the communication between the head ...
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Página 258 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing...
Página 326 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Página 300 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 473 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 120 - Father, being animated with a laudable, and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the Territories of our Empire...
Página 258 - LET as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of 1he benefit.
Página 413 - There is not, in my opinion, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence ; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertions of a succession of wise men through a long course of ages ; withdrawing every case as it arises from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules ; extending the dominion of justice and reason, and gradually contracting, within the narrowest possible limits, the...
Página 127 - And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion "—such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute—" hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants, no person...
Página 208 - ... on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.
Página 357 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.