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  Oration Tranqvilli Parthenii Andronici Dalmatae Contra Thurcas ad Germanos Habita by  Tranqvilli Parthenii Andronici aka Fran Trankvil Andries Given to the Reichstag of Augsburg in 1518 - >>> Source Quamquam scio multum acerbitatis ad meum dolorem accessurum esse fortissimi Germani, si ingentem immanissimorum Thurcarum potentiam referre voluero, partim quod meum recens atque gravissimum vulnus mihi ipsi refricare necessum est, partim etiam magnitudine imminentis calamitatis, ne dicam excidii reipublicae Christianae, nisi deus optimus maximus tantam ruinam avertat, repellat, exterminet, tamen neque propriis periculis, ac diuturna malorum serie, neque communibus incommodis, in quibus maxima pars diu versati sumus, ac (ut video) longe diutius versabimur, deterrebor: quin ea, quae ad omnium utilitatem spectare videbuntur, forti ac intrepido animo exprimam, quotidianis nostrae miserrimae conditionis fluctuationibus, earumque causis subinde assignatis.  Quae...

  Calcutta Review, Volume 68, 1879 University of Calcutta., 1879 https://books.google.ca/books?id=oHpEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 ART.  II.—THE TURKS IN HUNGARY. The conflict which was lately raging in South-Eastern Europe between Christian and Musalman, was but one episode in the world-old struggle which has gone on unceasingly in the same reg, ions, and in the countries round about them, between the rival systems and the hostile nations of the East and West, between Ormuzd and Ahriman, between light and darkness, between liberty and slavery, between democracy and despotism, between a living hope in the present and a dead faith in the past.  From the siege of Troy to the siege of Plevna history repeats the varying tale of tbe strife between Europe and Asia — Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still and still destroying.   It is twenty-four centuries since, at Marathon, the tyrant of the Chersonese proved himself “Freedom's best and bravest friend,” and toda...