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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... THE WAR WITH NAPOLEON I. Robert Hall. in-tes'-tine (L. intus), inward, internal, domestic dis-cor'-dant (L. dis, cor), inconsistent, inharmonious ho-ri'-zon (Gr. horos), a line which bounds the view sep'-ul-chre (L. sepultum), a grave, a tomb pu-sil-lan'-i-mous (L. pusillus, animus), mean-spirited, cowardly sanc'-tu-a-ry (L. sanctus), a holy place, an asylum, a temple au-spi'-ci-ous (L. avis, specio), prosperous, favourable sub-ju-ga'-tion (L. sub, jugum), the act of subduing ca-tas'-tro-phe (Gr. kata, strophe), a final event, a calamity in-un-da'-tion (L. in, unda), a flood, a deluge Ther-mop'-y-lae, a small pass, leading from Thessaly into Greece, celebrated for the battle between Xerxes and the Greeks, in which 300 Spartans, under Leonidas, resisted for three successive days the attacks of the Persian army, which, according to some historians, numbered five millions In other wars we have been a divided people: the effect of our external operations has been in some measure weakened by intestine dissension. When peace has returned, the breach has widened, while parties have been formed on the merits of particular men, or of particular measures. These have all disappeared: we have buried our mutual animosities in a regard to the common safety. The sentiment of self-preservation, the first law which nature has impressed, has absorbed every other feeling; and the fire of liberty has melted down the discordant sentiments and minds of the British empire into one mass, and propelled them in one direction. Partial interests and feelings are suspended, the spirits of the body are collected at the heart, and we are awaiting with anxiety, but without dismay, the discharge of that mighty tempest which hangs upon the skirts of the horizon, and to which the eyes of E...
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