The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 193A. Constable, 1901 |
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Page 131
... Britain , at all events , the controversies of generations of historians have cleared the air ; and Oliver Cromwell now stands out by general consent as second to none of those who have served England and swayed the destinies of ...
... Britain , at all events , the controversies of generations of historians have cleared the air ; and Oliver Cromwell now stands out by general consent as second to none of those who have served England and swayed the destinies of ...
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... Britain , and enable him to realise the peculiar atmo- sphere of that peculiar mode of life , with its good and evil , its various qualifications for success , as , for example , Alphonse Daudet's Numa Roumestan ' illustrates the ...
... Britain , and enable him to realise the peculiar atmo- sphere of that peculiar mode of life , with its good and evil , its various qualifications for success , as , for example , Alphonse Daudet's Numa Roumestan ' illustrates the ...
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... Britain resound with martial melodies . ' The speaker is Raphael Dominick , poet and philosopher , who comes into the blank of Allegra's disillusioned exist- ence . He is the person created to be the mouthpiece of Mr. Zangwill's ...
... Britain resound with martial melodies . ' The speaker is Raphael Dominick , poet and philosopher , who comes into the blank of Allegra's disillusioned exist- ence . He is the person created to be the mouthpiece of Mr. Zangwill's ...
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... Britain . For perhaps of all Irish politicians , certainly of all her present parliamentary representatives , the quondam editor of United Ireland ' Las been the most vehement in his expression of that racial antagonism which never ...
... Britain . For perhaps of all Irish politicians , certainly of all her present parliamentary representatives , the quondam editor of United Ireland ' Las been the most vehement in his expression of that racial antagonism which never ...
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... Britain in an especial degree are concen- trated the animosity and jealousy of the Continental peoples , whose passions are restrained by rulers and govern- ments better informed and more wisely patriotic than themselves . Can peaceful ...
... Britain in an especial degree are concen- trated the animosity and jealousy of the Continental peoples , whose passions are restrained by rulers and govern- ments better informed and more wisely patriotic than themselves . Can peaceful ...
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Page 371 - Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, , It is but giving over of a game That must be lost Phi.
Page 112 - You must get men of a spirit, and take it not ill what I say — I know you will not — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else you will be beaten still.
Page 226 - I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people, on all sorts of subjects, and never knew her in the wrong. She humbles the learned, sets right their disciples, and finds conversation for everybody.
Page 106 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Page 131 - It is time for us to regard him as he really was, with all his physical and moral audacity, with all his tenderness and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action what Shakespeare was in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time.
Page 113 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
Page 126 - The mind is the man. If that be kept pure, a man signifies somewhat; if not, I would very fain see what difference there is betwixt him and a beast He hath only some activity to do some more mischief.
Page 3 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Page 17 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free...
Page 128 - You have accounted yourselves happy in being environed with a great Ditch from all the world beside. Truly you will not be able to keep your Ditch, nor your Shipping, — unless you turn your Ships and Shipping into Troops of Horse and Companies of Foot ; and fight to defend yourselves on terra firma ! — And these things stated, liberavi animam meam ; and if there be " no danger" in ' all