The Quarterly Review, Volumes 222-223William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1915 - English literature |
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... action , if taken at all , calls for urgency . An officer may enter- tain doubts concerning the subsequent approval of his superior , but prompt and vigorous measures may well mean the instant repression of a tribal disturbance , which ...
... action , if taken at all , calls for urgency . An officer may enter- tain doubts concerning the subsequent approval of his superior , but prompt and vigorous measures may well mean the instant repression of a tribal disturbance , which ...
Page 41
... action if only he could cease to think and ponder , their own national type and image . The successful wars of 1864 , 1866 , and 1870-1 , and the notable expansion of German com- merce , have intervened . Faust , however , still remains ...
... action if only he could cease to think and ponder , their own national type and image . The successful wars of 1864 , 1866 , and 1870-1 , and the notable expansion of German com- merce , have intervened . Faust , however , still remains ...
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... , one remembers how Ranke , after 1870 , failed to discover the ' purifying action ' which , he had hoped , would result from the war . All menaces ruin ; religion is undermined . . . . There is nothing THE GERMAN SPIRIT 47.
... , one remembers how Ranke , after 1870 , failed to discover the ' purifying action ' which , he had hoped , would result from the war . All menaces ruin ; religion is undermined . . . . There is nothing THE GERMAN SPIRIT 47.
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... action , of which we now hear day by day , it is worth while for a moment to consider this ' Culture , ' so vaunted and flaunted before us . Nations , and national cultures , are interdependent . Kant ( with Scotch blood in his veins ) ...
... action , of which we now hear day by day , it is worth while for a moment to consider this ' Culture , ' so vaunted and flaunted before us . Nations , and national cultures , are interdependent . Kant ( with Scotch blood in his veins ) ...
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... and if , after so asserting his supremacy , his action has neither been disallowed by the Cabinet nor followed by the resignation or dismissal of his colleagues it must be assumed , until the contrary is proved 62 THE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.
... and if , after so asserting his supremacy , his action has neither been disallowed by the Cabinet nor followed by the resignation or dismissal of his colleagues it must be assumed , until the contrary is proved 62 THE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.
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