The Quarterly Review, Volume 215William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1911 |
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... Defence of Guenevere ( 1858 ) , The Life and Death of Jason ( 1867 ) , The Earthly Paradise ( 1868-70 ) , Grettir the Strong ( 1869 ) , The Volsungs and Niblungs ( 1870 ) , Love is Enough ( 1873 ) , The Æneids ( 1876 ) , Sigurd the ...
... Defence of Guenevere ( 1858 ) , The Life and Death of Jason ( 1867 ) , The Earthly Paradise ( 1868-70 ) , Grettir the Strong ( 1869 ) , The Volsungs and Niblungs ( 1870 ) , Love is Enough ( 1873 ) , The Æneids ( 1876 ) , Sigurd the ...
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... defence , supposing the course of the war be such as to leave the sea equally free to both sides . It might prove too that in a war between any two of these Powers a larger number of such steamers might be captured , and yet their loss ...
... defence , supposing the course of the war be such as to leave the sea equally free to both sides . It might prove too that in a war between any two of these Powers a larger number of such steamers might be captured , and yet their loss ...
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... defence ; and the Power which desires to acquire colonies from its adversary must have ships of war to escort its attacking forces . No operations on land on the other side of a narrow sea or across the ocean can be carried on without ...
... defence ; and the Power which desires to acquire colonies from its adversary must have ships of war to escort its attacking forces . No operations on land on the other side of a narrow sea or across the ocean can be carried on without ...
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... defence of the national welfare and of the whole body of States which constitute the Empire . In the decision of a matter which concerns our very existence , the deliberate judg- ment of statesmen and seamen , impartial discussion by ...
... defence of the national welfare and of the whole body of States which constitute the Empire . In the decision of a matter which concerns our very existence , the deliberate judg- ment of statesmen and seamen , impartial discussion by ...
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... defence , was gradually allowed to decay . Moreover , the clergy were far more polished and better educated than the nobles , and endowed with tastes demanding a standard of comfort and refinement at which , probably , the nobles would ...
... defence , was gradually allowed to decay . Moreover , the clergy were far more polished and better educated than the nobles , and endowed with tastes demanding a standard of comfort and refinement at which , probably , the nobles would ...
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Page 507 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 338 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Page 230 - They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me. . . . I'll have no call now to be up crying and praying when the wind breaks from the south, and you can hear the surf is in the east, and the surf is in the west, making a great stir with the two noises, and they hitting one on the other.
Page 7 - All appliances, whether on land, at sea, or in the air, adapted for the transmission of news, or for the transport of persons or things, exclusive of cases governed by naval law...
Page 26 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower of the spring pass by us; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered...
Page 522 - But he was wounded for our transgressions ; he was bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
Page 522 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 522 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 200 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 229 - I do be thinking in the long nights it was a big fool I was that time, Michael Dara; for what good is a bit of a farm with cows on it, and sheep on the back hills, when you do be sitting looking out from a door the like of that door, and seeing nothing but the mists rolling down the bog, and the mists again and they rolling up the bog, and hearing nothing but the wind crying out in the bits of broken trees were left from the great storm, and the streams roaring with the rain.