The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1915 |
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... attempt to co - operate with his neighbours for the purpose of doing better business ; that in many places he labours under great difficul- ties in the matter of transport ; that he pursues his calling in his own way without the ...
... attempt to co - operate with his neighbours for the purpose of doing better business ; that in many places he labours under great difficul- ties in the matter of transport ; that he pursues his calling in his own way without the ...
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... attempt thy praise ; Accept these tears - and griefs I still endure Make them not scarce , the while this song I raise . * Woe unto him who saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , Arise . Habukkuk , c . ii , v . 19 . Pardon and ...
... attempt thy praise ; Accept these tears - and griefs I still endure Make them not scarce , the while this song I raise . * Woe unto him who saith to the wood , Awake ; to the dumb stone , Arise . Habukkuk , c . ii , v . 19 . Pardon and ...
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... attempt on his life he is known to have made , and , as it admitted of reconsideration , need not be taken very seriously . The incident is of some importance in relation to the sufferer's supposed madness , of which , had the attempt ...
... attempt on his life he is known to have made , and , as it admitted of reconsideration , need not be taken very seriously . The incident is of some importance in relation to the sufferer's supposed madness , of which , had the attempt ...
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... attempt to obtain a relaxation of this rule , for the neces- sary proof of sitting is the one effective barrier against a flood of claims to medieval baronies . The pedigree , although its formal proof may involve great expense , is ...
... attempt to obtain a relaxation of this rule , for the neces- sary proof of sitting is the one effective barrier against a flood of claims to medieval baronies . The pedigree , although its formal proof may involve great expense , is ...
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... attempt to establish the existence of a barony ' by writ ' without producing any valid proof of sitting . I showed in Peerage and Pedigree ' that the decision in the Fauconberg case had left the question in doubt , owing to the ...
... attempt to establish the existence of a barony ' by writ ' without producing any valid proof of sitting . I showed in Peerage and Pedigree ' that the decision in the Fauconberg case had left the question in doubt , owing to the ...
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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 240 - The trade of neutrals with belligerents in articles not contraband is absolutely free, unless interrupted by blockade; the conveyance by neutrals to belligerents of contraband articles is always unlawful, and such articles may always be seized during transit by sea. Hence, while articles, not contraband...
Page 79 - 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
Page 318 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 316 - And none to pity thee ! . . . Thou little thing That curlest in my arms, what sweet scents cling All round thy neck! Beloved; can it be All nothing, that this bosom cradled thee And fostered; all the weary nights, wherethrough I watched upon thy sickness, till I grew Wasted with watching? Kiss me. This one time; Not ever again. Put up thine arms, and climb About my neck: now, kiss me, lips to lips.
Page 240 - Hence, while articles, not contraband, might be sent to Matamoras and beyond to the rebel region, where the communications were not interrupted by blockade, articles of a contraband character, destined in fact to a State in rebellion, or for the use of the rebel military forces, were liable to capture though primarily destined to Matamoras. We are obliged to conclude that the portion of the cargo which we have characterized as contraband must be condemned.
Page 231 - Article 4 A blockade is not regarded as raised if the blockading force is temporarily withdrawn on account of stress of weather. Article 5 A blockade must be applied impartially to the ships of all nations.
Page 49 - 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 413 - Now, God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary...
Page 413 - Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.