The Quarterly Review, Volume 230William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1918 - English literature |
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... forces the mind to be con- tinually brooding over its own guilt , constantly urging the prisoner to contemplate the degradation of his position , and seeking to impress upon him that his crimes have caused him to be excluded from all ...
... forces the mind to be con- tinually brooding over its own guilt , constantly urging the prisoner to contemplate the degradation of his position , and seeking to impress upon him that his crimes have caused him to be excluded from all ...
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... forces , dies after a reign of less than two years ; and the wheel of fortune swings suddenly round . The worship of the Sun - god is discarded ; the Nicene Creed expels the brief and enlightened catechism of the pagan Sallustius ; and ...
... forces , dies after a reign of less than two years ; and the wheel of fortune swings suddenly round . The worship of the Sun - god is discarded ; the Nicene Creed expels the brief and enlightened catechism of the pagan Sallustius ; and ...
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... still remained the most impressive monument in the world of force , fortune and prudence . How could a soldier historian fail to feel the miracle of an Empire which sent its legions to fight 42 THE LAST OF THE LATIN HISTORIANS.
... still remained the most impressive monument in the world of force , fortune and prudence . How could a soldier historian fail to feel the miracle of an Empire which sent its legions to fight 42 THE LAST OF THE LATIN HISTORIANS.
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... force , and loses none of its tragical quality in the hands of Ammianus , who , after working steadily up to the great climax of the battle , ends with two minor but startlingly significant episodes — a Gothic attack upon Constantinople ...
... force , and loses none of its tragical quality in the hands of Ammianus , who , after working steadily up to the great climax of the battle , ends with two minor but startlingly significant episodes — a Gothic attack upon Constantinople ...
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... force and attraction . It is not to be claimed for Ammianus that he never talks nonsense . He talks a deal of nonsense . He believes in omens and prodigies , and delights in describing them to an audience which did not think the worse ...
... force and attraction . It is not to be claimed for Ammianus that he never talks nonsense . He talks a deal of nonsense . He believes in omens and prodigies , and delights in describing them to an audience which did not think the worse ...
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Page 98 - Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may so far as possible be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible.
Page 13 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Page 391 - The House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din, ' We're sure the Kaiser loves the dear old Tanks ! ' " I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or ' Home, sweet Home ! ' — And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
Page 382 - In our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just, And that braggarts must Surely bite the dust, Press we to the field ungrieving, In our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just. Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away...
Page 399 - 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 348 - ... —Provided that the Court may, notwithstanding that they are of opinion that the point raised in the appeal might be decided in favour of the appellant, dismiss the appeal if they consider that no substantial miscarriage of justice has actually occurred.
Page 406 - The Government of India must remain wholly responsible to Parliament, and saving such responsibility, its authority in essential matters must remain indisputable, pending experience of the effect of the changes now to be introduced in the provinces. In the meantime the Indian Legislative Council should be enlarged and made more representative and its opportunities of influencing Government increased.
Page 98 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Page 16 - The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great.
Page 382 - And so by ship to sea, and knew no more The fields of home, the byres, the market towns, Nor the dear outline of the English shore, But knew the misery of the soaking trench, The freezing in the rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some idea but dimly understood Of an English city never built by hands Which love of England prompted and made good.