| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 страници
...they are fired by the prophetic vision of the poet, who never was more inspired than when he said : " Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won." NOTE. — It would be premature on our part, to attempt to give a sketch of the pending Polish insurrection,... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 страници
...;—they are fired by the prophetic vision of the poet, who never was more inspired than when he said : " Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won." NOTE.—ft would be premature on our part, to attempt to give a sketch of the pending Polish insurrection,... | |
| 1847 - 592 страници
...will wear no longer. Let our watchword and rallying cry, then be, those spirit-stirring words : — " Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won." The Rev. W. ANDEKSON, Glasgow The subject on which the committee have doni' me the honour of requesting... | |
| Jane Sinnett - 1847 - 176 страници
...Countries." engaged, may be truly so regarded. Gladly would we put faith in the assurance of the poet that " Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." Should this be — should the Circassians succeed in making good their cause, and history affords us... | |
| Mrs. Percy Sinnett - 1847 - 198 страници
...engaged, may be truly so regarded. Gladly would we. put faith in the assurance of the poet, that ' Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.' Should this be — should the Circassians succeed in making good their cause, and history affords us... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 410 страници
...even to hope for a successful issue. The event proved the truth of the glorious aphorism — "That freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is always won." The title of don Juan was not allowed by the pope, or by any of the catholic courts of... | |
| 1849 - 424 страници
...combatted still, and finally conquered ? Oh no, the lesson is not vain ! It will teach ua that — ' Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is surely won I' It will inspire us with the unshaken trust that, though the hosts of the oppressor be... | |
| 1886 - 964 страници
...Unless generous terms he offered us, I propose, in my individual capacity, to continue the fight : — for "Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baflled oft, Is ever won." We can not afford to risk much in arbitration. We have been subjected to... | |
| 1850 - 612 страници
...family to his country. That Hungary will enslaved long by Austria, appears to us an impossibility; For freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, i- ever won. In giving (what we believe to be) a true and faithful account of he late events in Hungary,... | |
| John Ludlum McConnel - 1851 - 296 страници
...subject upon which I can be said to be warm — and I believe with Byron, ' That freedom's battle, oft begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.' I cannot claim any great merit for it, however, for when I entered the armies of Texas, I was as little... | |
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