A discourse on the life, character, and policy of Count Cavour, delivered in the hall of the New York historical society, February 20, 1862. By Vincenzo Botta ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781425507404
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: WHEN Pericles was called upon to deliver the funeral oration of those who had fallen in the first campaign of the Peloponnesian war, according to Thucydides, he began by extolling Athens, and having expatiated on her glories, her institutions, her laws, her sciences and arts, he concluded by exclaiming: "For such a republic, for such a country, the men whom we mourn fell and died."