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He then began the season of travel which usually followed studies at the university, a part of his training to which he had looked forward with especial interest. He went first to Holland, which had been in Queen Elizabeth's time the battle-ground of civil and religious liberty.
The few townspeople who, for obvious reasons, were stay-at-homes, were uncommonly civil; Caen had evidently preserved the tradition of good manners. An army of cripples was in waiting to point the way to the church doors; a regiment of beggars was within them, with nets cast already for the catching of the small fry of our pennies. In the gay, geranium-lit garden circling the side walls of St.
He came to meet her with a hundred and fifty horsemen. Nobody in the household of Mary de'Medici had observed her departure. Great was the rumors when her escape became known, and greater still when it was learned in whose hands she had placed herself. It was civil war, said everybody.
One reason operating to produce this result was that, in an age when lineage or military prowess was the sole secular step to fortune, men of civil talent but humble birth had to choose between remaining in hopeless insignificance or entering the priesthood where knowledge and virtue were sure passports to distinction.
Because she loved him she could not think evil of him, nor suppose for a moment that his passion was not as pure and true as hers. Therefore she consented to live with him as his wife, though no religious nor civil ceremony could sanction their union. That this, according to the world's standard, was wrong, is a fact beyond dispute.
EDW. W. HYDE, Civil Life, May 4, 1864; First Lt, Oct. 27, 1865. F. S. GOODRICH, 115th N. Y., May, 1864; First Lt., Oct., 1865. B. H. MANNING, Aug. 11, 1864; Capt 128th U. S. C. T., March 17, 1865. R. M. DAVIS, 4th Mass. Cavalry, Nov. 19, 1864; Capt. 104th U. S. C. T., May 11, 1865. HENRY WOOD, N. Y. Vol. Eng., Aug., 1865; First Lt, Nov., 1865.
Through every stage of the conflict the United States have maintained an impartial neutrality, giving aid to neither of the parties in men, money, ships, or munitions of war. They have regarded the contest not in the light of an ordinary insurrection or rebellion, but as a civil war between parties nearly equal, having as to neutral powers equal rights.
As is known, he had been in his prime one of the foremost of the New England anti-slavery men, and he had fought the good fight with a heavy heart for a brother long settled in Louisiana who sided with the South, and who after the civil war found himself disfranchised.
This decision of the ballot box proved clearly that this party were in the majority, and removed the danger of civil war. From that time we have heard little or nothing of the Topeka government, and all serious danger of revolutionary troubles in Kansas was then at an end.
The man has no civil alternative but to give me an answer. The answer is given in these words: "I was tired out, sir. You wouldn't have found me asleep in the daytime but for that." "Tired out, eh? You had been hard at work, I suppose?" "No, sir." "What was it, then?" He hesitates again, and answers unwillingly, "I was up all night." "Up all night? Anything going on in the town?"
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