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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 82
Page 51
... relation between the excess of imports and the amount invested abroad is further emphasised by the relative figures for the past year . During 1910 , as stated above , the amount of capital subscribed for investment abroad was ...
... relation between the excess of imports and the amount invested abroad is further emphasised by the relative figures for the past year . During 1910 , as stated above , the amount of capital subscribed for investment abroad was ...
Page 58
... relations stand , as a whole , to remit to this country each year gold or commodities to the value of at least 330,000,000l . in payment of interest on loans , and for services rendered . In what form are we to accept payment of this ...
... relations stand , as a whole , to remit to this country each year gold or commodities to the value of at least 330,000,000l . in payment of interest on loans , and for services rendered . In what form are we to accept payment of this ...
Page 62
... relations with Argentina . If British investors subscribe in London a loan , say for 5,000,000l . , to the Argentine Government or to an Argentine railway com- pany , they immediately and ipso facto create a credit for that amount to ...
... relations with Argentina . If British investors subscribe in London a loan , say for 5,000,000l . , to the Argentine Government or to an Argentine railway com- pany , they immediately and ipso facto create a credit for that amount to ...
Page 71
... qualities of English versification or of the inti- mate relation subsisting between these qualities and that indefinable and ubiquitous influence , the genius of the language ; when he explains its rhythms in their larger ENGLISH PROSODY ...
... qualities of English versification or of the inti- mate relation subsisting between these qualities and that indefinable and ubiquitous influence , the genius of the language ; when he explains its rhythms in their larger ENGLISH PROSODY ...
Page 73
... relations is to invert the relations between life and art , and to trivialise art in the process . Prosody has but to detach itself from the organic whole or to assert itself unduly , and our delight in it begins at once to smack of ...
... relations is to invert the relations between life and art , and to trivialise art in the process . Prosody has but to detach itself from the organic whole or to assert itself unduly , and our delight in it begins at once to smack of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abroad action Admiralty adopted Alsace-Lorraine amendments Authorised Version authority benefit Bill Bishops Bismarck boats British Canon Canon Law century Church Church of England clauses colonial Committee contributions Courts defence divorce doubt ecclesiastical effect England existing fact favour foreign France French Gambetta Geneva Bible German Gil Blas give Government Greek hospitals Imperial important industrial influence interest Labour Lesage less literary Lloyd George London Lord Lord Acton Madame Adam marriage matter means ment Monte Circeo Morris Morris's nature naval organisation original Parliament party passed persons Philip Watts political practically principle question recognised Reformatio regard result revision rhythm Roman scheme Scotland Scottish ships societies spirit strike style submarine success Terracina things Tindale's tion torpedo totemism trade translation Triple Entente verse vessels Via Appia Vulgate whole words writer
Popular passages
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.