The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1915 |
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... Foreign Kings ' to English affairs , it seems probable that these islands would have become the conscript appendage of France in the 14th , or of Spain in the 16th century ; with the necessary consequence that French or Spanish would ...
... Foreign Kings ' to English affairs , it seems probable that these islands would have become the conscript appendage of France in the 14th , or of Spain in the 16th century ; with the necessary consequence that French or Spanish would ...
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... foreign clime Where Fortune rarely smiles , and joys are few ; The weary exile yet feels some regret , Cons o'er the toils and dangers of past years , Remembers help and courtesy received , And cheer and comfort , and , ere he depart ...
... foreign clime Where Fortune rarely smiles , and joys are few ; The weary exile yet feels some regret , Cons o'er the toils and dangers of past years , Remembers help and courtesy received , And cheer and comfort , and , ere he depart ...
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... themselves to the study of English medieval history with the aid of those incomparable records which are the envy of foreign lands . J. H. ROUND . Art . 4. - PATRIOTISM . 1. Letters on Patriotism 70 RECENT PEERAGE CASES.
... themselves to the study of English medieval history with the aid of those incomparable records which are the envy of foreign lands . J. H. ROUND . Art . 4. - PATRIOTISM . 1. Letters on Patriotism 70 RECENT PEERAGE CASES.
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... foreign devils . ' Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners . Our own nation has a peculiarly bad record in this respect . In the reign of James I the Spanish ...
... foreign devils . ' Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners . Our own nation has a peculiarly bad record in this respect . In the reign of James I the Spanish ...
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... foreign travel have been increased . But in the relations of Europe with alien and independent civilisations , such as that of China , we still see brutal arrogance and vulgar ignorance producing their natural results . Another cause of ...
... foreign travel have been increased . But in the relations of Europe with alien and independent civilisations , such as that of China , we still see brutal arrogance and vulgar ignorance producing their natural results . Another cause of ...
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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