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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2,462 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 692 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 516 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 418 0 Browse Search
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 358 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 298 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 230 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. 190 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 186 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 182 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
he foretold the end, which was then far distant, and not to come until he had been laid in his grave. While the Republic was proceeding with tremendous strides, overturning thrones and striking down nations, and while the English nation, tired of the conflict and of the little success which it had brought to the British arms, were eagerly crying out for peace, Burke was preparing his celebrated "Letters upon a Regicide Peace," in which he endeavored to show that there could be no peace with France but at the cost of national independence. In those remarkable productions remarkable from the prophetic vein which runs throughout them he takes the position that no nation can be fatally defeated but by its own hands. The loss of battles, and even of cities and provinces, he tells us, are but slight wounds, while the loss of national spirit is the true blow at the vitus. As long as the public spirit exists in vigor, disaster serves but to arouse the nation to a true sense of its own reso