The Quarterly Review, Volume 225William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1916 - English literature |
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... GERMAN NEIGHBOUR - 92 1. Correspondence on the subject of the proposed Naval and Military Expedition against German South - West Africa ( April 1915 ) . [ Cd . 7873. ] Wyman . 2. Report on the outbreak of the Rebellion and the policy of ...
... GERMAN NEIGHBOUR - 92 1. Correspondence on the subject of the proposed Naval and Military Expedition against German South - West Africa ( April 1915 ) . [ Cd . 7873. ] Wyman . 2. Report on the outbreak of the Rebellion and the policy of ...
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... GERMAN METHODS OF PENETRATION IN BELGIUM BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR With a Preface by 1. The German Mole , a Study of the Art of Peaceful penetration . By Jules Claes . J. Holland Rose . Bell , 1915 . 2. ( a ) Histoire belge du Grand ...
... GERMAN METHODS OF PENETRATION IN BELGIUM BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR With a Preface by 1. The German Mole , a Study of the Art of Peaceful penetration . By Jules Claes . J. Holland Rose . Bell , 1915 . 2. ( a ) Histoire belge du Grand ...
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... German system , but a British colony taking her place in the Empire under the triple principle of ' self - government , self - development , and self - defence . ' One of the rights of self - government bestowed upon the Canadian people ...
... German system , but a British colony taking her place in the Empire under the triple principle of ' self - government , self - development , and self - defence . ' One of the rights of self - government bestowed upon the Canadian people ...
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... German peril . The masses were indifferent . There was no real cause for anything but a friendly spirit toward the German people . Generation after generation of Canadian children have been taught to regard Germany as England's friend ...
... German peril . The masses were indifferent . There was no real cause for anything but a friendly spirit toward the German people . Generation after generation of Canadian children have been taught to regard Germany as England's friend ...
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... German it is almost incomprehensible . The American , or the Englishman even , who merely tours Canada for a year , can have little conception of it . We Canadians are often misjudged by both Americans and Englishmen , for the simple ...
... German it is almost incomprehensible . The American , or the Englishman even , who merely tours Canada for a year , can have little conception of it . We Canadians are often misjudged by both Americans and Englishmen , for the simple ...
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Page 248 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Page 239 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Page 11 - I am for it, because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the north pole!
Page 166 - ... by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately. I have desired this and worked for it, as far as I could, through the last Balkan crisis, and, Germany having a corresponding object, our relations sensibly improved. The idea has hitherto been too Utopian to form the subject of definite proposals, but if this present crisis, so much more acute than any that Europe has gone through for generations, be safely passed, I am hopeful that the relief and reaction which will follow may make possible...
Page 246 - Fenc'd on the Lower End by a Natural mound of Rock-work that strikes the Eye very Agreeably. For my part I think there is something more charming in these rude heaps of Stone than in so many Statues, and wou'd as soon see a River winding through Woods and Meadows as when it is toss'd up in such a Variety of figures at Versailles.
Page 245 - A MAN who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his writings to the world in loose tracts and single pieces. We do not expect to meet with any thing in a bulky volume, till after some heavy preamble, and several words of course to prepare the reader for what follows : nay, authors have established it as a kind of rule that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the...
Page 239 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce. It is nat honest, it may nat avaunce For to delen with no swich poraille, But al with riche and sellers of vitaille.
Page 445 - during the continuance of the present war, to issue regulations,' or, in other words, to make any laws which approve themselves to the Cabinet, ' for securing the public safety and the defence of the realm.
Page 165 - If the peace of Europe can be preserved, and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavour will be to promote some arrangement to which Germany could be a party, by which she could be assured that no aggressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately.
Page 402 - He must do at least one good turn to somebody every day. 4. A scout is friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother to every other scout.