The Quarterly Review, Volume 225William 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 John Murray, 1916 |
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... Doubt as to the propriety of the step comes from with- out , not from within . There is every indication that Canada is to - day in better fighting trim than a year ago , and that it has become a people's war . From one single issue of ...
... Doubt as to the propriety of the step comes from with- out , not from within . There is every indication that Canada is to - day in better fighting trim than a year ago , and that it has become a people's war . From one single issue of ...
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... doubt that what tipped the scale so decidedly against reciprocity was the fact that Canadian national pride was touched , and they feared a severance of their British relations . Among various utterances by the American press and ...
... doubt that what tipped the scale so decidedly against reciprocity was the fact that Canadian national pride was touched , and they feared a severance of their British relations . Among various utterances by the American press and ...
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... doubt whatever . Denmark is what it is to - day simply because the rural population has been in a position to do its best . The rural advance which has taken place in England , Scotland and Ireland during the last few years is ...
... doubt whatever . Denmark is what it is to - day simply because the rural population has been in a position to do its best . The rural advance which has taken place in England , Scotland and Ireland during the last few years is ...
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... doubt about that . In the first place they put the land in the hands of those who can and will do their duty by it . Then comes education . After that , mutual aid and all rural progress . Let us turn back to the Danish peasant , a man ...
... doubt about that . In the first place they put the land in the hands of those who can and will do their duty by it . Then comes education . After that , mutual aid and all rural progress . Let us turn back to the Danish peasant , a man ...
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... doubt home - staying farmers have ever homely wits ; and , from this point of view , as Mr Edward Strutt once impressed on the writer , there is some justification in market - day . But the Danish farmer is more than compensated by the ...
... doubt home - staying farmers have ever homely wits ; and , from this point of view , as Mr Edward Strutt once impressed on the writer , there is some justification in market - day . But the Danish farmer is more than compensated by the ...
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Page 248 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Page 239 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Page 11 - I am for it, because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the north pole!
Page 166 - ... by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately. I have desired this and worked for it, as far as I could, through the last Balkan crisis, and, Germany having a corresponding object, our relations sensibly improved. The idea has hitherto been too Utopian to form the subject of definite proposals, but if this present crisis, so much more acute than any that Europe has gone through for generations, be safely passed, I am hopeful that the relief and reaction which will follow may make possible...
Page 246 - Fenc'd on the Lower End by a Natural mound of Rock-work that strikes the Eye very Agreeably. For my part I think there is something more charming in these rude heaps of Stone than in so many Statues, and wou'd as soon see a River winding through Woods and Meadows as when it is toss'd up in such a Variety of figures at Versailles.
Page 245 - A MAN who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his writings to the world in loose tracts and single pieces. We do not expect to meet with any thing in a bulky volume, till after some heavy preamble, and several words of course to prepare the reader for what follows : nay, authors have established it as a kind of rule that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the...
Page 239 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce. It is nat honest, it may nat avaunce For to delen with no swich poraille, But al with riche and sellers of vitaille.
Page 445 - during the continuance of the present war, to issue regulations,' or, in other words, to make any laws which approve themselves to the Cabinet, ' for securing the public safety and the defence of the realm.
Page 165 - If the peace of Europe can be preserved, and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavour will be to promote some arrangement to which Germany could be a party, by which she could be assured that no aggressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately.
Page 402 - He must do at least one good turn to somebody every day. 4. A scout is friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother to every other scout.