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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... month , 25 / - quarter ( deducted if bought Ist qtr . ) . Bargains in Office Furniture . SPECIALISTS IN PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS . Blicks , Empires , and Corona Folding Machines at lowest prices . Hire Purchase on very easy terms . , MS ...
... month , 25 / - quarter ( deducted if bought Ist qtr . ) . Bargains in Office Furniture . SPECIALISTS IN PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS . Blicks , Empires , and Corona Folding Machines at lowest prices . Hire Purchase on very easy terms . , MS ...
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... months later , hearing that Alphonso was to visit the young prince , who had now succeeded to the Dukedom , Tasso shortly fled from Sassuolo , the little watering place where he was staying , intending to seek safety in Rome . A day ...
... months later , hearing that Alphonso was to visit the young prince , who had now succeeded to the Dukedom , Tasso shortly fled from Sassuolo , the little watering place where he was staying , intending to seek safety in Rome . A day ...
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... months are favourable , a large variety of crops is sown during October and November ; and organisation is wanted to secure not only that the culturable land is fully occupied , but that it is occupied by the most important crops . The ...
... months are favourable , a large variety of crops is sown during October and November ; and organisation is wanted to secure not only that the culturable land is fully occupied , but that it is occupied by the most important crops . The ...
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... months ago , was associated only with the barbarians of the Orient . Another dramatic crossing was that of Alexander on his way to the battle of the Granicus and the overthrow of Persia . The passage was in itself so unimportant as a ...
... months ago , was associated only with the barbarians of the Orient . Another dramatic crossing was that of Alexander on his way to the battle of the Granicus and the overthrow of Persia . The passage was in itself so unimportant as a ...
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... months out of the twelve blows with the current from the N.-E. , often with great violence . When current and wind are both at their height , no sailing ship , even of the best modern type , can beat up against them ; for the vessels of ...
... months out of the twelve blows with the current from the N.-E. , often with great violence . When current and wind are both at their height , no sailing ship , even of the best modern type , can beat up against them ; for the vessels 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