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Researchers in physics there have long been famous , in story , for that kind of apparatus which is best described as a rum un to look at but a beggar to go ' —the essential parts held together by sealing wax , pieces of wire ...
Researchers in physics there have long been famous , in story , for that kind of apparatus which is best described as a rum un to look at but a beggar to go ' —the essential parts held together by sealing wax , pieces of wire ...
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Si vis pacem , para bellum is to be read into the speeches of ministers who a little time ago were rejecting it as antiquated doctrine ; and to look to our moat and not too far beyond it is once more the plain dictate of common sense .
Si vis pacem , para bellum is to be read into the speeches of ministers who a little time ago were rejecting it as antiquated doctrine ; and to look to our moat and not too far beyond it is once more the plain dictate of common sense .
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A well - known Chinese proverb declares that family can look forward to posterity which does not look backward to its ancestors . ' Shall we not take to heart the truth of that saying ...
A well - known Chinese proverb declares that family can look forward to posterity which does not look backward to its ancestors . ' Shall we not take to heart the truth of that saying ...
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Contents
ART PACE 1 1 Imperial Defence and the International Situation | 1 |
The Perversion of Mountaineering | 2 |
De Mortuis | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 268-269 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1937 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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