Young Italy

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Page 156 - And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
Page 26 - It is quite unjust to suppose that Austria is regarded with unfavourable eyes by the population of Lombardy ; Charles Albert found, to his dismay and surprise, that it was far otherwise ; the nobility and the upper classes of the bourgeoisie retain all their ancient hereditary animosity to the name and habits of the Tedeschi : not so the people — with a happier, although uncultivated instinct, they perceived that the government which Austria organized at least preserved order, that the returns...
Page 10 - The powers consequently declare, that Napoleon Bonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Page 26 - In the towns there were sects and clubs which exploited all the possible errors of the Austrian government for their own advantage ; but throughout the provinces there is but one feeling — that the rule of some great power is the only possible means of saving the country from perpetual warfare and its attendant miseries.
Page 30 - ... saving only the mast and boat. This ship was laden with forty horses of price, with all kinds of arms for as many riders, for fourteen footmen and fifteen sailors. Moreover, it had a year's food for all these men and horses." THE KINGDOM OF ACRE — THE STRUGGLE FOR RECOVERY. ''1192-1244.) " A brave man struggling with the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
Page 109 - A system of wanton spoliation, of unbridled excess, of cruelty perhaps without parallel, commenced. . . . The only difference between the Roman revolution and that of 1789 is, that the French one was directed by men of greater courage and more thorough determination. There was not much open violence manifested at Rome, but it is quite undeniable that murders, and those of the blackest and most fearful description, were hourly committed — that the people groaned under a reign of terror, that no...
Page 10 - Buonaparte has placed himself out of the pale of civil and social relations, and that, as the general enemy and disturber of the world, he is abandoned to public justice.

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