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416 NOTICES OF BOOKS,
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«O» The Vicissitudes Of Italy, Since The...
honor tottering or consistency sceptre , up . held Unlike by Austrian their names and bayonets , charged , cleared at the either price b with each of all opprobrium succeedin claim ta
or contempt , his memory , —more more y g investi crusader gation —his , and errors invested of judgment with the and chivalrous deficiency of attrib strateg utes ical of resource a paladin for or
posterity given institutions or , . extenuated While last he , , — inaugurate and will most be handed d significant in good down discrepancy faith to the and grateful , maintaine the king admiration dom d lay , whose self of
new sacrificehas "been yearly advancing in prosperity , and importance ; and now the stands hope forth , and amid the the monitor other states the examp of Ital le y , and as the the living rebuke among , equall the y dead of , the as
, oppressed and their oppressors . " Tlie Tuscans also obtained a constitution , "but the Pope , alarnied
at tlie result of the reforms he had himself set on foot , and , seeing' in the demand for a representative government the subversion of Roinan
Catholicismhesitated and drew back . On the 18 th of March , 1848 , the Milanese , revolted against the Austrian yoke , and on the 29 th ,
Charles Albert and his army entered Lomfoardy , "warmly -welcomed by all classes of the people , who hastened to enrol themselves in
volunteer battalions under his command . c i "Victorious in encounterwith the single exception of a repulse in
every , crowned an ill-advised on the attack 30 th of upon May Yerona by the , battle the successes of faith Groito in , of and the the the ardor Piedmontese surrender of the Italian of were the
fortress of Peschiera . * * * * With peop of the le , Yicar in the of promised Christ co-op his eration enterprise of their the princes king , above at the all in the opening blessing of
grave the war political , was drawn error . by upon Without the poetic entering knight into - , errantry any sti , of pulation his character very as to the into price a to the callof the
of his assistancehe had at once responded s insurgent populations the Milanese Lombardo . Instead the -Ye zeal , ne of ti and an marching provinces elfsacrifice on and the exhibited Piedmont capital to b , effect and his own demanding the jun subjects ction from between his their first
s-y , the step came nation when solely he at to entered the comp conclusion lete Lombard the work of y was the so g to war loriousl issue to y a determine begun proclamation , leavin their g to futur to declare the e form will ' he of of
A government pril , with , . an ' inferior He then force pushed , defeated on towards the , Austrians the Mincio drawn the river ; and up to on _Flushed dispute the 8 th his b of
passage this brilliant , and established successand himself the app on lause the left with bank which of it was hailed . at Milan y , CharleAlbert be , pardoned for deeming that the irations of his house
were on s the eve may of fulfilmentand for the fond antici asp pation that the Iron Crown of _Louibardy , the free , gift of a grateful people , would soon encircle
his " brow In requiting . his confidence and his exertions , the Venetians hastened to incorporate proclaim dicated how the their Republic far they new of levies St . from Mark with entertaining ; the while Piedmontese the Lombards desire army , by for , sufficientl their the territorial refusal y in to
were any less Taking fusion than and no the account community energeti of the c of prosecution formidable interests which of line the the Adi of the war defence general , still imperativel , Peschiera retained welfare y b and of demanded Radetzk Ital Mantua y , no .
they whe on the n had his Mincio totall troops , y Verona were swept driven and the Legnano enemy from their from on unfortifie their that ge soil the , d , cities the first , presumption and boasting y sent of that the to y
gre Ill Lombards yria et the and king may Dalm on "be his atia illustrated arrival , ancient at by Pavia Italian the fact , comp possessions , lacently to indicated the deputation north that -east at of least the
416 Notices Of Books,
416 NOTICES OF BOOKS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/56/
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