The Quarterly Review, Volume 236William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1921 - English literature |
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... canon ; il tient en échec des régiments entiers ; et trois cents hommes disputent Paris à toute une armée . Ce contraste s'explique aisément ; on affronte le mort pour une conviction politique même erronée ; on ne se fait pas tuer pour ...
... canon ; il tient en échec des régiments entiers ; et trois cents hommes disputent Paris à toute une armée . Ce contraste s'explique aisément ; on affronte le mort pour une conviction politique même erronée ; on ne se fait pas tuer pour ...
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... canon of its constitution , and selections from the records of another hundred years were declared eligible to receive its attention . Apart from the reservation mentioned , the Society has not confined its output to any particular age ...
... canon of its constitution , and selections from the records of another hundred years were declared eligible to receive its attention . Apart from the reservation mentioned , the Society has not confined its output to any particular age ...
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... Canon Van der Gheyn to draw his own conclusions . It is from a pamphlet by him , published by Van Doosselaere of Ghent , that the following account is drawn . As soon as the invasion of Belgium began , the Canon realised that the ...
... Canon Van der Gheyn to draw his own conclusions . It is from a pamphlet by him , published by Van Doosselaere of Ghent , that the following account is drawn . As soon as the invasion of Belgium began , the Canon realised that the ...
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... Canon's reply . The danger drew nearer and nearer ; finally the dis- tracted Canon decided to go to the Burgomaster and ask his advice . If this proved of no avail , then he would apply to Van der Heuvel , one of the Belgian Ministers ...
... Canon's reply . The danger drew nearer and nearer ; finally the dis- tracted Canon decided to go to the Burgomaster and ask his advice . If this proved of no avail , then he would apply to Van der Heuvel , one of the Belgian Ministers ...
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... Canon informed the servants of the Cathedral that it was gone . It was decided that the actual hiding was also to ... Canon of St Bavon win the victory ? The Canon asked himself what proofs he could show the coming enemy ' ADORATION OF ...
... Canon informed the servants of the Cathedral that it was gone . It was decided that the actual hiding was also to ... Canon of St Bavon win the victory ? The Canon asked himself what proofs he could show the coming enemy ' ADORATION OF ...
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Page 209 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival States...
Page 46 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Page 295 - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 386 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 102 - It was an author in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted...
Page 26 - You know how opposed your whole "third manner" of execution is to the literary ideals which animate my crude and Orson-like breast, mine being to say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint of breathing and sighing all round and round it, to arouse in the reader who may have had a similar perception already (Heaven help him if he hasn't!) the illusion of a solid object, made (like the "ghost...
Page 40 - ... the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an actor, and coefficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human action — action which to a great extent transforms the world — help to make the truth which they declare. In other words, there belongs...
Page 40 - I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an actor, and co-efficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create.
Page 46 - The British Government and the Government of India, on whom the responsibility lies for the welfare and advancement of the Indian peoples, must be judges of the time and measure of each advance, and they must be guided by the co-operation received from those upon whom new opportunities of service will thus be conferred and by the extent to which it is found that confidence can be reposed in their sense of responsibility.
Page 146 - ... many storms before. There is an Eastern story of a king with an uncertain temper who desired his astrologer to discover from the stars when his death would come. The astrologer, having cast the horoscope, replied that he could not find the date, but had ascertained only this, that the king's death would follow immediately on his own. So may it be said that Democracy will never perish till after Hope has expired.