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Kossuth and His Generals: With a Brief History of Hungary; Select Speeches ... Henry W. (Henry Walter) de Puy No preview available - 2017 |
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ADDRESS Andreas arms Austrian Austrian empire battle Bela blood Buda castle cause civil command confidence constitution Croatia Croats crown danger Danube death declared defeated defend despotism Diet duty dynasty emperor enemy England Europe excited exile faith father father-land Ferdinand force foreign fortress freedom garian gary Gorgey Gorgey's hands Haynau heart HISTORY OF HUNGARY honor hope house of Hapsburg Hungarian army Hungarian nation hussars imperial independence Jellachich John Zapolya king of Hungary kingdom kingdom of Hungary Komorn Kossuth ladies Ladislas land laws liberty Louis Kossuth Madame Magyars majesty Maria ment military never nobility noble oath officers oppressed patriotism peace peasants Pesth political prince principles prison protection race rebellion rebels reign revolution royal Russian sent Servian Shumla soldiers sovereign speech Stephen struggle surrender sympathy thee thousand throne tion Transylvania troops Turks United Vazul victory Vienna Wesselenyi wife
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Page 398 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
Page xii - Tis well ! from this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought ; That by our own right hands it must be wrought ; That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low. O dastard whom such foretaste doth not cheer ! We shall exult, if they who rule the land Be men who hold its many blessings dear, Wise, upright, valiant ; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear And honour which they do not understand.
Page 193 - Hungary would now rank among the most prosperous nations. It was only necessary that it should not envy the Hungarians the moderate share of constitutional liberty which they timidly maintained during the difficulties of a thousand years with rare fidelity to their sovereigns, and the house of Hapsburg might long have counted this nation among the most faithful adherents of the throne.
Page 386 - There will be fought the decisive battles for the independence of nations, for state rights, for international law, and for democratic liberty. We will live free, or die like men. But should my people be doomed to die, it will be the first whose death will not be recorded as...
Page 381 - It is in the garden of centralization that the venomous plant of ambition thrives. I dare confidently affirm, that in your great country there exists not a single man through whose brains has ever passed the thought that he would wish to raise the seat of his ambition upon the ruins of your country's liberty. If he could, such a wish is impossible in the United States. Institutions react upon the character of nations. He who sows the wind will reap the storm. History is the revelation of Providence....
Page 212 - Roman intrenchment have been taken by storm, and the whole country between the Danube and the Theiss, including the county of Bacs, has been recovered for the nation. The Commander-in-chief of the perjured house of Austria has himself been defeated in five consecutive battles, and has with his whole army been driven back upon and even over the Danube. Founding...
Page 213 - ... the nations of Europe, declares it to be its intention to establish and maintain friendly and neighbourly relations with those states with which it was formerly united under the same sovereign, as well as to contract alliances with all other nations. 4th. The form of government to be adopted for the future will be fixed by the Diet of the nation.
Page 339 - Gentlemen, there is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power ; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.
Page 383 - But there is one thing indispensable to it, without which there is no hope for this happy issue. This indispensable thing is, that the oppressed nations of Europe become the masters of their future, free to regulate their own domestic concerns, and to secure this nothing is wanted but to have that fair play to all, and for all, which you, sir, in your toast were pleased to pronounce as a right of my nation, alike sanctioned by the law of nations as by the dictates of eternal justice. Without this...
Page 195 - Hungary presents but an unbroken series of perjured deeds from generation to generation. In spite of such treatment the Hungarian nation has all along respected the tie by which it was united to this dynasty, and in now decreeing its expulsion from the Throne it acts under the natural law of self-preservation, being driven to pronounce this sentence by the full conviction that the House of...