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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 230 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 152 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 48 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 40 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 38 2 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 30 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 24 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 24 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 22 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 20 0 Browse Search
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Neutrality--Kentucky --When General Bonaparte in the early days of has first campaign in Italy had defeated and dispersed the armies of Piedmont and Austria and had been carried by the course of his virtories in the Venetian frontier, the Senate of Venice sent a deputation to him, with a request that he would respect their neutrality — the reply was characteristic, and it settled the question of neutral territory at once and forever. It was in substance as follows: You are between that person of the Austrian pos in Italy in which the war between France and Austria has been waged, and Austria itself. Unless the Austrians should make use of your territory to pass over men to the seat of war, they would be confined to a narrow and authentic passage between the mountains and the Adige and between the Adige and Lake Gards. You have suffered them to make use of your territory for the passage of troops to attack the French, or to hold their possessions against the arms of France ope
d our heads, formed the web and woof of many splendid fancies. The Gerinans have a saying that it is the true test of friendship to be able to sit in another's company an hour without speaking — to enjoy that secret communion of soul that cannot be expressed in words. Thus we sat, my friend and I listening to the sounds of the night, when a band of young men struck up a song beneath us, a strangely sweet melody, which fell upon our ears as pleasantly as some barcarole across the lagoons of Venice, or the serenade from Don Pasquale heard on a summer night in Havana. The singers were young men from the Seventh Virginia Regiment, and the compliment to the ladies of the house. They are welcome to the compliment, since we enjoyed the pleasure of litening to the singing. This will do, I think, for half-past 12--midnight. There are several other things on my note book, but for fear of running out of facts I reserve them for another time. To close, we will fancy the green curtain des