The Quarterly Review, Volume 228William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1917 |
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Page 129
... the strange harvest of as many as twelve horned mines within a week . They have laid out , examined and Vol . 228.-No. 452 . K extended nets and other defences . They have escorted vessels THE MINOR ELEMENTS OF SEA POWER 129.
... the strange harvest of as many as twelve horned mines within a week . They have laid out , examined and Vol . 228.-No. 452 . K extended nets and other defences . They have escorted vessels THE MINOR ELEMENTS OF SEA POWER 129.
Page 130
... extended nets and other defences . They have escorted vessels through mine - fields and boarded vessels to examine them . They have controlled the movements of shipping and the lighting of coasts . They have reported and encountered ...
... extended nets and other defences . They have escorted vessels through mine - fields and boarded vessels to examine them . They have controlled the movements of shipping and the lighting of coasts . They have reported and encountered ...
Page 131
... extended to the sweeping of floating contact mines , accompanied by the remark that by Art . I. of the Second Hague Conference , such mines were forbidden unless they became inopera- tive within an hour of breaking away from their ...
... extended to the sweeping of floating contact mines , accompanied by the remark that by Art . I. of the Second Hague Conference , such mines were forbidden unless they became inopera- tive within an hour of breaking away from their ...
Page 139
... extend its action . We have also seen in how real a sense the two branches of the Sea Services , the Naval and the Mercantile , are working together and have become , for the period of the war , at least , parts of a single organisation ...
... extend its action . We have also seen in how real a sense the two branches of the Sea Services , the Naval and the Mercantile , are working together and have become , for the period of the war , at least , parts of a single organisation ...
Page 159
... . The sincere sympathy shown by the British press and people towards our national cause , and the kindly welcome extended to me by Ministers and Statesmen of this great country , led me to hope ALBANIA AND THE ALBANIANS 159.
... . The sincere sympathy shown by the British press and people towards our national cause , and the kindly welcome extended to me by Ministers and Statesmen of this great country , led me to hope ALBANIA AND THE ALBANIANS 159.
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Page 310 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 233 - A little time that we may fill Or with such good works or such ill As loose the bonds or make them strong Wherein all manhood suffers wrong. By rose-hung river and light-foot rill There are who rest not ; who think long Till they discern as from a hill At the sun's hour of morning song, Known of souls only, and those souls free, The sacred spaces of the sea.
Page 451 - With a view to the establishment of a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby...
Page 309 - ... at least one college in each state, ' where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 237 - Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown, The just Fate gives; Whoso takes the world's life on him and his own lays down, He, dying so, lives. "Whoso bears the whole heaviness of the wronged world's weight And puts it by, It is well with him suffering, though he face man's fate; How should he die? 'Seeing death has no part in him any more, no power Upon his head; He has bought his eternity with a little hour, And is not dead.
Page 231 - Slumber and sorrow and pleasure, Vision of virtue and crime; Till consummate with conquering eyes, A soul disembodied, it rise From the body transfigured of time...
Page 397 - Government and people are under to these hardworking capable, and law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and the traders, and in some instances the planters and the fishermen, before the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the construction of roads and other public works, and to pay for all the other costs of administration.
Page 311 - ... natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States...
Page 238 - And ye shall die before your thrones be won. — Yea, and the changed world and the liberal sun Shall move and shine without us, and we lie Dead ; but if she too move on earth, and live, But if the old world with all the old irons rent Laugh and give thanks, shall we be not content ? Nay, we shall rather live, we shall not die, Life being so little, and death so good to give.
Page 397 - ... as contractors they constructed nearly all the Government buildings, most of the roads and bridges, railways and waterworks. They brought all the capital into the country when Europeans feared to take the risk ; they were the traders and shopkeepers, and it was their steamers which first opened regular communication between the ports of the colony and the ports of the Malay States.