The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1915 |
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... attempt to co - operate with his neighbours for the purpose of doing better business ; that in many places he labours under great difficul- ties in the matter of transport ; that he pursues his calling in his own way without the ...
... attempt to co - operate with his neighbours for the purpose of doing better business ; that in many places he labours under great difficul- ties in the matter of transport ; that he pursues his calling in his own way without the ...
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... attempt thy praise ; Accept these tears - and griefs I still endure Make them not scarce , the while this song I raise . ' Woe unto him who saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , se . ' Habukkuk , c . ii , v . 19 . Pardon and ...
... attempt thy praise ; Accept these tears - and griefs I still endure Make them not scarce , the while this song I raise . ' Woe unto him who saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , se . ' Habukkuk , c . ii , v . 19 . Pardon and ...
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... attempt on his life he is known to have made , and , as it admitted of reconsideration , need not be taken very seriously . The incident is of some importance in relation to the sufferer's supposed madness , of which , had the attempt ...
... attempt on his life he is known to have made , and , as it admitted of reconsideration , need not be taken very seriously . The incident is of some importance in relation to the sufferer's supposed madness , of which , had the attempt ...
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... attempt to obtain a relaxation of this rule , for the neces- sary proof of sitting is the one effective barrier against a flood of claims to medieval baronies . The pedigree , although its formal proof may involve great expense , is ...
... attempt to obtain a relaxation of this rule , for the neces- sary proof of sitting is the one effective barrier against a flood of claims to medieval baronies . The pedigree , although its formal proof may involve great expense , is ...
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... attempt to establish the existence of a barony ' by writ ' without producing any valid proof of sitting . I showed in ' Peerage and Pedigree ' that the decision in the Fauconberg case had left the question in doubt , owing to the ...
... attempt to establish the existence of a barony ' by writ ' without producing any valid proof of sitting . I showed in ' Peerage and Pedigree ' that the decision in the Fauconberg case had left the question in doubt , owing to the ...
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Page 405 - unforgettable effect with so little effort as in ' His Mate': '" Hi-diddle-diddle The cat and the fiddle." . . . I raised my head, And saw him seated on a heap of dead, Yelling the nursery-tune. Grimacing at the moon. . . . " And the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Page 217 - nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 218 - Hague Convention XIII of 1907: ' A neutral Government is bound to employ the means at its disposal to prevent the fitting out or arming of any vessel within its jurisdiction, which it has reason to believe is intended to cruise, or engage in hostile operations, against a Power with which
Page 320 - Tearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness.
Page 415 - what the dead have given us who gave their everything to England : ' gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Page 591 - be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of unarmed merchantmen, and recognise also, as all other nations do, the obligation to take the usual precaution of visit and search to ascertain whether a suspected merchantman is in fact of belligerent nationality or is in fact carrying contraband under a neutral flag.
Page 62 - in that he most intendeth, that it needeth not to be stood upon. It is enough to point at it; that no nation, which doth not directly profess arms, may look to have greatness fall into their mouths.' A state, therefore, ' ought to have those laws or customs, which may reach forth unto them just occasions of war.
Page 591 - that the Imperial Government accept as a matter of course, the rule that the lives of noncombatants, whether they be of neutral citizenship or citizens of one of the nations at war, cannot lawfully or rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of unarmed merchantmen,
Page 216 - a neutral Power is not bound to prevent the export, or transit, on behalf of either belligerent, of arms, munitions of war, or in general of anything which could be of use to an army or fleet.
Page 62 - Above all, for empire and greatness, it importeth most, that a nation do profess arms, as their principal honour, study, and occupation. For the things which we formerly have spoken of are but habilitations towards arms; and what is