The Quarterly Review, Volume 233William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1920 - English literature |
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... the summer of 1842 , when the Emperor yielded assent to the terms embodied in the Treaty of Nanking , by which , among other things , the island of Hongkong was ceded to Great Britain , and 4 CHINA AND THE POWERS The French Novel.
... the summer of 1842 , when the Emperor yielded assent to the terms embodied in the Treaty of Nanking , by which , among other things , the island of Hongkong was ceded to Great Britain , and 4 CHINA AND THE POWERS The French Novel.
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... things . For some years previously , in addition to normal methods of obtaining regular com- missions through Sandhurst and Woolwich , a few com- missions were given to men who had had university training . This system introduced into ...
... things . For some years previously , in addition to normal methods of obtaining regular com- missions through Sandhurst and Woolwich , a few com- missions were given to men who had had university training . This system introduced into ...
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... thing to do with this ; but a deeper cause was the fact that a soldier during his seven or nine years ' period in the army was so cut off from all interests and crafts of the civil community that , when he was discharged , he had no ...
... thing to do with this ; but a deeper cause was the fact that a soldier during his seven or nine years ' period in the army was so cut off from all interests and crafts of the civil community that , when he was discharged , he had no ...
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... thing not to be held . In the natural course of events land and buildings come freely on to the market , and at periods of slackness in trade and industry tend to depreciate in value . A capital levy could but throw still more property ...
... thing not to be held . In the natural course of events land and buildings come freely on to the market , and at periods of slackness in trade and industry tend to depreciate in value . A capital levy could but throw still more property ...
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... rather varied list we may separate at once pictures and objets d'art , the collector's aim . Such things in any country where a capital levy was in force would have but a limited sale . The Government might value and 56 A CAPITAL LEVY.
... rather varied list we may separate at once pictures and objets d'art , the collector's aim . Such things in any country where a capital levy was in force would have but a limited sale . The Government might value and 56 A CAPITAL LEVY.
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Page 236 - I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
Page 316 - shall concurre with his sorrow, to his farther vexation. No one wicked person, by any diversion or cunning, shall avoid this sorrow, for it is in the midst, and in the end of all his forced contentments; Even in laughing, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness!
Page 433 - The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness, should be abhorrent and detestable, even if it were possible, even if it enriched ourselves, even if it did not sow the decay of the whole civilised life of Europe.
Page 226 - The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 425 - binding character; for one of the conditions of it was that Germany should agree to Armistice terms, which were to be such as would leave her helpless. Germany having rendered herself helpless in reliance on the Contract, the honour of the Allies was peculiarly involved in fulfilling their part, and, if there were ambiguities,
Page 316 - the Prison, and the place of Execution, does any man sleep? And we sleep all the way; from the womb to the grave we are never throughly awake ; but passe on with such dreames, and imaginations as these, I may live as well, as another, and why should I dye, rather then another? but awake, and tell me,
Page 217 - This Church, as part of the Universal Church wherein the Lord Jesus Christ has appointed a government in the hands of Church Office-Bearers, receives from Him, its Divine King and Head, and from Him alone, the right and power, subject to no civil authority, to legislate and to adjudicate finally in all matters of doctrine, worship, government, and
Page 427 - The war had so shaken this system as to endanger the life of Europe altogether. A great part of the Continent was sick and dying; its population was greatly in excess of the numbers for which a livelihood was available ; its organisation was destroyed, its transport system ruptured,
Page 218 - The Church has the right to interpret these Articles, and, subject to the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to modify or add to them, but always consistently with the first Article hereof, adherence to which, as interpreted by the Church, is essential to its continuity and corporate life.
Page 217 - This Church has the inherent right, free from interference by civil authority, but under the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to frame or adopt its subordinate standards, to declare the sense in which it understands its Confession of Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein,