The Quarterly Review, Volume 231William 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, 1919 |
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... communication with him with a view to publishing his book . They soon became intimate friends , and the publisher rendered valuable assistance to the author in the preparation of all his subsequent volumes . When Schliemann came home ...
... communication with him with a view to publishing his book . They soon became intimate friends , and the publisher rendered valuable assistance to the author in the preparation of all his subsequent volumes . When Schliemann came home ...
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... with mortification and regret . He had long had a desire to found a really good weekly literary organ ; and in 1869 he was brought into communication with Dr Charles Appleton , Fellow of St John's College , Oxford JOHN MURRAY III 21.
... with mortification and regret . He had long had a desire to found a really good weekly literary organ ; and in 1869 he was brought into communication with Dr Charles Appleton , Fellow of St John's College , Oxford JOHN MURRAY III 21.
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... communication with this department . It is more than an ordinary banking house . In war time it is , as Herr Riesser remarks , a Kriegsbank in a very special sense . It would astonish the average Englishman , in reading the works of the ...
... communication with this department . It is more than an ordinary banking house . In war time it is , as Herr Riesser remarks , a Kriegsbank in a very special sense . It would astonish the average Englishman , in reading the works of the ...
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... communication between the London branch and the Deutsche Orientbank , really an affiliation of the Dresdner . They pointed to an exceptionally active interest in Egyptian concerns . The Orientbank had long devoted attention to this ...
... communication between the London branch and the Deutsche Orientbank , really an affiliation of the Dresdner . They pointed to an exceptionally active interest in Egyptian concerns . The Orientbank had long devoted attention to this ...
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... communication , the Red Guards obtained posession of South Finland . In the meantime Mannerheim had been at work ... communications with the east of Finland by seizing the railway through the centre of the country , and with Sweden by ...
... communication , the Red Guards obtained posession of South Finland . In the meantime Mannerheim had been at work ... communications with the east of Finland by seizing the railway through the centre of the country , and with Sweden by ...
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Page 507 - The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And...
Page 212 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 22 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 130 - ... country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him. His position takes the imagination of the country. He is the representative of no constituency, but of the whole people. When he speaks in his true character, he speaks for no special interest. If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when its President is of such insight and calibre.
Page 130 - His is the only national voice in affairs. Let him once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.
Page 230 - Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: " wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...
Page 147 - I have sought this opportunity to address you because I thought that I owed it to you, as the council associated with me in the final determination of our international obligations...
Page 317 - Poetry is the product of earnest thought. Thought [cherished] in the mind becomes earnest; exhibited in words it becomes poetry. The feelings move inwardly, and are embodied in words. When words are insufficient for them, recourse is had to sighs and exclamations. When sighs and exclamations are insufficient for them, recourse is had to the prolonged utterances of song. When those prolonged utterances of song are insufficient for them, unconsciously the hands begin to move and the feet to dance.
Page 130 - The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution, — it will be from no lack of constitutional powers on its part, but only because the President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion.
Page 135 - In the interval between April 12 and July 4, 1861, a new principle thus appeared in the constitutional system of the United States, namely, that of a temporary dictatorship. All the powers of government were virtually concentrated in a single department, and that the department whose energies were directed by the will of a single man.