And voices of triumph are blending: On night’s dark wings rides Victory,— Leipzig, sing ye! sing ye the fight of the free! Our hoary sires of the ancient day, When Varus was routed by Hermann, The Kaisers that taught haughty Rome to obey, That hunted the Huns and the Turks away,...
Albert Barnes (1798-1870) was an American theologian, born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtow...
with the life of a suppressed people, such as those Italians who were living under Austrian and papal rule. He was, above all, interested in history and inspired by the idea of national liberty. Accordingly, he took part in an unsuccessful plot against the papal government in Rome in 1830...