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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 43 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 42 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 38 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 32 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 28 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 27 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 26 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 22 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 22 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Navy. (search)
io, non-conquisitio," so it is called by Blackstone, who wrote very little more than a century ago. To us it seems to have been the most thorough of all possible conquests. The Normans were masters. The English were slaves, that was all. Yet, ever since Edmund Burke first uttered his nonsense in the House of Commons about the Anglo-Saxon race, every fool whose mother tongue is English considers it a high honor to be a descendant of these serfs to the Normans; for they were no better. The English have certainly been a great people; but alas! for their Anglo-Saxon progenitors! If such a feeble struggle as that of the Saxons is worthy of such commendation as this, in what terms does the defence of our liberties, in which we are now engaged, deserve to be recorded? What did the Saxons do, compared to what we have done? They yielded at the first onset, after a single battle, to an army of fifty or sixty thousand invaders, not more numerous than that with which they met him. As a