United States or Trinidad and Tobago ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
For my part, I know that all history furnishes no other such example; and I believe that no man was ever so miraculously endowed with the power to conquer nature. But we have not the smallest reason, the slightest excuse, for so pliant a credulity.
I was warned in Spain against the plots of the Carbonari, and the caution has been repeated here. And I must keep silence. I cannot punish the traitors, for that would consign the majority of my generals to the ax of the executioner. But I will give them all a warning example. I will intimidate them, let them have an intimation that I am aware of their treacherous plans."
For example, that question of the pension concerning which he now found, to his slight surprise, he was no longer the least in doubt. This money was his by right. The hard strain in his nature was dominant to the full he would claim his rights.
For example, they distinguished between the Presence of Christ's Body in the Sacrament and His existence in heaven, by describing only the latter as a Bodily existence. Practically, the theory of the Brethren, which, however, was by no means clearly defined, agreed most with that represented afterwards by Calvin.
"Sire, you shall have your great thieves," said Fouche, with a smile. "Give them into my hands, and I promise you they shall never escape," cried Bonaparte, eagerly. "It is high time to make an example, and show these people at last that I claim the right of paying back.
You have got lots of silly people who become envious of the rich and pass laws to prevent combination, which is the logical development of all industry." The government handling of exchange during the war was another example of the use of the centralised power of the Government for the benefit of the whole nation.
The "Federalist" remains a classic example of the civic quality of our post-Revolutionary American political writing, broadly social in its outlook, well informed as to the past, confident but not reckless of the future. Many Americans still read it who would be shocked by Tom Paine and bored with Edmund Burke.
So much for an example of the clever work done by Brussels. The German Service, in which I served on and off for twelve years, has three distinct branches the Army, Navy and Personal, each branch having its own chief and its own corps of men and women agents.
In thus holding to what he had undertaken, a man of lower nature might have had respect to the example he would so give: Cosmo thought only of honourable and grateful fulfilment of his contract. Not only would it have been a poor return for Mr.
This battle, from the circumstances which attended and followed it, presents a striking example of the wretched state of military discipline in those times.
Word Of The Day