Life of Victor Emmanuel II, First King of Italy, Volume 2Macmillan, 1879 |
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... honour to address to me . Your holiness , invoking my aid in recovering the Legations , appears to lay to my charge what has taken place in that part of Italy . Before con- firming so severe a censure , I respectfully entreat your ...
... honour to address to me . Your holiness , invoking my aid in recovering the Legations , appears to lay to my charge what has taken place in that part of Italy . Before con- firming so severe a censure , I respectfully entreat your ...
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... honour to place in your hands the legal documents of the universal suffrage of the popu- lations of the Emilia . Your majesty , who pitifully heard their cry of anguish , will welcome benignantly this pledge of faith and gratitude ...
... honour to place in your hands the legal documents of the universal suffrage of the popu- lations of the Emilia . Your majesty , who pitifully heard their cry of anguish , will welcome benignantly this pledge of faith and gratitude ...
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... honour towards our common country , and universal civilisation . I have not in the past had any other ambition than to hazard my life for the inde- pendence of Italy , and to give the people an example of loyalty which , restoring the ...
... honour towards our common country , and universal civilisation . I have not in the past had any other ambition than to hazard my life for the inde- pendence of Italy , and to give the people an example of loyalty which , restoring the ...
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... honours the Italian arms , and must help to persuade Europe that the Italians are now determined to sacrifice life itself to recover liberty and country . I pray you to give my sincere and warm congratulations to General Garibaldi , etc ...
... honours the Italian arms , and must help to persuade Europe that the Italians are now determined to sacrifice life itself to recover liberty and country . I pray you to give my sincere and warm congratulations to General Garibaldi , etc ...
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... honour ; but they were made to understand that the day of compromise was passed ; Italian unity must be accomplished . Nevertheless , Victor Emmanuel wrote privately to Garibaldi , asking him to content himself with Sicily for the ...
... honour ; but they were made to understand that the day of compromise was passed ; Italian unity must be accomplished . Nevertheless , Victor Emmanuel wrote privately to Garibaldi , asking him to content himself with Sicily for the ...
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