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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 2 : military policy, or the philosophy of war. (search)
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Chapter 3 : strategy. (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 21 : Germany .—October , 1839 , to March , 1840 .—Age, 28 -29 . (search)
Vienna, Oct. 26.
At length in Vienna.
Left Munich in the eilwagen
Stage-coach. for Passau; rode a day and night.
At Passau, with an English friend, chartered a little gondola, or skiff, down the Danube, seventy miles, to Linz; dropped with the current, through magnificent scenery, till towards midnight, and stopped at a little village on the banks.
To our inquiries, if they ever saw any English there, we were told they should as soon expect to see the Almighty; and I was asked if AmePassau, with an English friend, chartered a little gondola, or skiff, down the Danube, seventy miles, to Linz; dropped with the current, through magnificent scenery, till towards midnight, and stopped at a little village on the banks.
To our inquiries, if they ever saw any English there, we were told they should as soon expect to see the Almighty; and I was asked if America was not in the neighborhood of Odessa.
At Linz took a carriage for Vienna,—two days and a half,—where I arrived yesterday.
You have doubtless heard of Webster's reception in England.
I have just read a letter from my friend Morpeth
Lord Morpeth said, also, in the letter: He (Mr. Webster) talked with great respect of you. (to whom I sent a letter for Webster), who says he was much struck by him; there seemed to be a colossal placidity about him.
All appear to think him reserved and no
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2 : (search)
Chapter 2:
From Vienna to Florence.
Austrian monasteries.
Austrian and Bavarian Alps.
Munich.
Lausanne.
Geneva.
Turin.
General la Harpe.
Count Balbo.
Pellico.
Manzoni.
Journal.
July 2.—This morning we left Vienna. . . . In the latter part of the forenoon we had fine views of the Danube, and the country beyond it. It is a grand river, rising in the square of the city of Donauschingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, entering Austria below Passau, and leaving it near Orsova, but not finally discharging itself into the Black Sea until it has had a course of fully 1,550 English miles.
For Austria it is of vast consequence, and, with the progress of the arts and improvements of peace, will become every day of more consequence; for, by itself and its large tributaries, such as the Inn, the Traun, and the Enns, it embraces and binds together two thirds of the monarchy. . . .
We stopped for the night at St. Polten,
A corruption of St. Hippolytus. . . . . a