If my reasons appear weak, you will excuse them for the disinterestedness of the author, as I may venture to affirm that no man on this continent will sacrifice more than myself by the separation.
A] It has been seen that George Mason considered Henry "the first man on this continent in ability as in public virtues.
I would blot out the lines on the map which now mark our national boundaries on this continent and make the area of liberty as broad as the continent itself.
The present political relations of this continent cannot long continue, and it becomes this nation to be prepared for the change which awaits it.
It is now a problem in experiment for the people of the nineteenth century upon this continent to solve.
The Duke of Marlborough was received on the Continent with almost the honours due to a crowned head.
He conceives the Creator to be very continent in the matter of interference with the natural course of things.
On the continent of Europe the belief seems to be at present in the ascendant that man must yet, for a long time, remain under the tutelage of absolutism before he shall be fit to organise himself into an autonomous political body.
In France and on the Continent generally, it would be taken as a sure indication of a coolness between the two Governments.
The British troops had been defeated on the Continent by Marshal Saxe, of whom I have already written, and by Marshal d'Estrees.
The fighting upon the Continent had dragged out to a weary length, but the Swedes, on the whole, had scored a marked advantage.
In America, that was a period when we took little interest in the movement of affairs on the continent of Europe.
In the actual settlement of the Continent indeed England saw only an imperfect balance to the power of France, but it had no means of disputing the settlement, as France had no means of disturbing its supremacy at sea.
And he saw that with every year of war on the Continent such a supremacy grew more distant than ever.
It is now a nation of forty millions, stretching over the whole continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
To avert such a result it was necessary to restore that balance of the Continent by which France and the German powers held one another in check; and with a view to this restoration Russia suddenly declared itself an enemy of France.
It is largely grown on the continent as a sugar-producing plant, but is seldom cultivated in these countries.
It is perennial, and attains on the Continent a height varying from 7 to 10 feet.
On the Continent the oil-seeds are subjected to the action of heat in order to obtain from them a greater yield of oil.
The wishes of the eternal enemies of the Continent are fulfilled," said he.
In any case, if the war on the continent were to be renewed, it would be England who would compel us to conquer Europe.
It will be the happiness of France to restore calm to Germany and Italy; its glory to enfranchise the continent from the covetous and malevolent influence of England.
The minister of foreign affairs responded by a declaration equally peremptory: "The condition of the continent at the time of the Treaty of Amiens, and nothing but that condition.
Their kinsmen on the continent described them as rich in weapons and fleets, and in warriors on land and sea (Tac.
Where, then, on our continent was the home of this Aryan European people in the stone age?
On the European continentit is not found east of a line drawn from Koenigsberg across Poland and Podolia to Crimea.
But the tribes of the western Teutonic continenthave also taken part in the first great war of mankind.
And on theContinent there is a more general disposition to return to institutions of order.
And he called the natives "Indians," as a token of his belief--a name that they and all the other natives of the American continent have borne to the present time.
King Richard was the brother of the base-hearted John--who tried to steal the throne from him when he was imprisoned on the continent after the Crusades.
It was in 1834 that the Reverend Jason Lee had crossed the continent with Wyeth's second expedition.
Ample opportunity they had to plunder, to sell supplies to the Indians or the Mormons, but no one of the men who did the actual work of bridging the continent has ever been accused of a selfish or dishonest act.
There was an impression that there must be such a thing somewhere on a continent that has everything else.
And if the continent does not satisfy us, there lie the West Indies within a few hours' sail, with all the luxuriance and geniality of the tropics.
Perhaps this change in fashion is more noticeable in England and on the Continent than in America, but that may be because there is less room for change in America, our girls being always of an aspiring turn.
In the credulous centuries when these voyages were made, other islands were discovered, and a continent much more important than Bimini; but these discoveries were a disappointment, because they were not what the adventurers wanted.
No institution has been better known or more marked on the Continent and in England, not excepting the tramway and the Pullman cars.
Indeed the distinction is normal to all fortification and exists upon the Continent to-day.
But Doria singly will of the corsair With his own forces purge the briny flood: So that I see each continent and isle Quake at his name, from Calpe to the Nile.
The easiest answer, and the one which most readily suggests itself, is that of a submersion of the continent at successive periods to allow the accumulation of these materials, and its subsequent elevation.
India is the great triangular continent bounded on the south-west and south-east by the sea, and shut in on the north by the Himalayan Mountains.
Interesting phases of that divided mind--homage to Christ, resentment towards His disciples--may be found on opposite sides of the great continent of India.
There is the interest of the grand organisation of the British Government, holding in its strong paternal grasp that vast continent of three hundred million souls.
It means no less than that there shall be no Federal States on this continent where free soil, free labor, free speech, equal rights and universal suffrage shall not prevail.
This stupendous partition of half a continent by two European Powers could scarcely be expected to excite the enthusiasm of the rest.
His infamy had spread beyond the limits of the continent which was the scene of his exploits to the distant nations of the north and west.
The Reformation on the Continent was as hostile to enlightenment as it was to liberty; and science, if it seemed to contradict the Bible, has as little chance with Luther as with the Pope.
Colensos book raised a storm of indignation in Englandhe was known as the wicked bishop; but on the Continent its reception was very different.
I tell ye I won't ate raw fishes to convart a continent av haythins, much less a little bit island av 'um.
