This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...under the Austrian rod, and be a tyrant--but a tyrant in truth--for the first hint you give of a step beyond the line prescribed, you will make the Austrian your foe. The Austrian distrusts you; but throw to his feet ten, twenty victims' heads--make the chains heavier on the rest--pay him by unlimited submission for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...under the Austrian rod, and be a tyrant--but a tyrant in truth--for the first hint you give of a step beyond the line prescribed, you will make the Austrian your foe. The Austrian distrusts you; but throw to his feet ten, twenty victims' heads--make the chains heavier on the rest--pay him by unlimited submission for the contempt which ten years ago he made you drink. Perhaps the tyrant 160 PROPHETIC WORDS OF MAZZINI. of Italy will forget that you joined in a conspiracy against him--perhaps he will allow you to preserve for him a few years the conquest he meditated as long ago as 1814. 'Sire! Repulse Austria! Leave France behind. Construct the Italian League. Put yourself at the head of the nation, and inscribe on your standard--Union, Liberty, Independence. Declare yourself the vindicator, the interpreter of the rights of Peoples--the Regenerator of Italy. Liberate Italy from the Barbarians! Shape her future! Give your name to an age! Begin an era for yourself! Compel history to write under the names of Washington and Kosciusko!--'There is a name greater than these. There was a throne erected by twenty millions of freemen, who wrote on its base--' To Charles Albert, born king! In him Italy was reborn." Victory is in your hand. Throw down the gauntlet to Austria, and the name of Italy into the camp. That ancient name will do prodigies. Appeal to all that is great and generous on our shores. Ardent, brave youth: --fired by two all-powerful passions, hatred and glory--have lived for years only in one thought--they are waiting only for the moment of carrying it into execution. Everything lies in knowing when to seize the moment! and it has come now. On the soil of Lombardy the fate of Italy and your own will be decided: soil which waits but a regiment and a...
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