The Quarterly Review, Volume 224John Murray, 1915 |
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Page 95
... army adequate to resist the hostile forces pressing on his north - western frontier . To the western mind the posi- tion might have called for an increase in taxation or for economies in internal expenditure ; Alá - ud - din and his ...
... army adequate to resist the hostile forces pressing on his north - western frontier . To the western mind the posi- tion might have called for an increase in taxation or for economies in internal expenditure ; Alá - ud - din and his ...
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... army within two days ' march of Karachi . In this atmosphere inherent improbability either counts for nothing or is a guarantee of truth ; and it is to be feared that both the actions and the motives of Government will be misrepresented ...
... army within two days ' march of Karachi . In this atmosphere inherent improbability either counts for nothing or is a guarantee of truth ; and it is to be feared that both the actions and the motives of Government will be misrepresented ...
Page 108
... army , convoyed by a great navy , fighting for the possession of the land . They met with a stubborn resistance . Near the shore stood a strong castle , fortified by all the arts of the 12th century B.C .; the remains of the walls still ...
... army , convoyed by a great navy , fighting for the possession of the land . They met with a stubborn resistance . Near the shore stood a strong castle , fortified by all the arts of the 12th century B.C .; the remains of the walls still ...
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... army from a throne set on the hills of Abydos , and called for a sham fight between the ships . ' And seeing all the Hellespont covered with the ships , and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men , Xerxes pronounced himself ...
... army from a throne set on the hills of Abydos , and called for a sham fight between the ships . ' And seeing all the Hellespont covered with the ships , and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men , Xerxes pronounced himself ...
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... army . Thence he crossed to the European side , to the sand - spit of Kum - kale . Here stood the great tumulus of unknown age , still a landmark to all who enter the Straits , and sacred to the Greeks as the tomb of Achilles . From ...
... army . Thence he crossed to the European side , to the sand - spit of Kum - kale . Here stood the great tumulus of unknown age , still a landmark to all who enter the Straits , and sacred to the Greeks as the tomb of Achilles . From ...
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Page 403 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 590 - Government with the utmost earnestness to the fact that the objection to their present method of attack against the trade of their enemies lies in the practical impossibility of employing submarines in the destruction of commerce without disregarding those rules of fairness, reason, justice, and humanity, which all modern opinion regards as imperative.
Page 77 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
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Page 318 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
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Page 411 - These homes, this valley spread below me here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century after century, held these farms, And, looking out to watch the changing sky, Heard, as we hear, the rumours and alarms Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh.
Page 47 - Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world ! " Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unformed and void ; darkness profound Covered the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth, Throughout the fluid mass...
Page 305 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove.
Page 321 - Awake, my mate! Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong Let loose the floods of thy glorious song, The sacred dirge of thy mouth divine For sore-wept Itys, thy child and mine; Thy tender trillings his name prolong With the liquid note of thy tawny throat; Through the leafy curls of the woodbine sweet The pure sound mounts to the heavenly seat, And Phoebus, lord of the golden hair, As he lists to thy wild plaint echoing there, Draws answering strains from his ivoried lyre, Till he stirs the dance...