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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 20 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 10 0 Browse 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.) 6 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
her as volunteers or as sold by their prince. How came Othello, he asks, into the service of Venice? Had the Moor no country? Why did he let out his arm and blood to a foreign state? Minna von Barnhelm, act III. scene 7; and act IV. scene 6. He published to the German nation his opinion that the Americans are building in the new world the lodge of humanity, and he desired to write more, for, said he, the people is consumed by hunger and thirst; but his prince commanded silence. At Weimar, in 1779, Herder, the first who vindicated for the songs of the people their place in the annals of human culture, published these words: The boldest, most godlike thoughts of the human mind, the most beautiful and greatest works, have been perfected in republics; not only in antiquity, but in medieval and more modern times, the best history, the best philosophy of humanity and government, is always republican; and the republic exerts its influence, not by direct intervention, but mediately
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
tlaw the rights of mankind. Extract of a letter of Ernst, Herzog zu Sachsen, an den Herzog zu Weimar, Gotha, 21 Feb., 1785. Communicated to me by Dr. Burkhardt, in charge of the archives at WeimarWeimar. A part of the letter has been already printed in Ranke's Die deutschen Machte, i. 218. The friend to whom these words were addressed was the brave, warm-hearted Charles Augustus of Saxe-Weimar,Weimar, who, in 1776, being then of only nineteen years, refused a request for leave to open recruiting offices at Ilmenau and Jena for the English service, Wangenheim to the duke, 22 May, 1776. but consed also of the earlier papers. The signature of Goethe, the youngest minister of Chap. III.} Weimar, is wanting to the draft, for he was absent on a winter trip to the Hartz Mountains; but that hihe wisdom and the will of the inhabitants been consulted and re- Chap. III.} spected. In Saxe-Weimar, the collision predicted for Germany by Goethe, between monarchy and popular freedom, was avoide