The Quarterly Review, Volume 225William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, 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 179 - If the peace of Europe can be preserved, and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavor 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 13 - 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 273 - 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 possessed of them.
Page 180 - 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 some more definite rapprochement between the Powers than...
Page 280 - The cascades seem to break through the clefts and cracks of rocks that are covered over with moss, and look as if they were piled upon one another by accident. There is an artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work, that strikes the eye very agreeably.
Page 279 - 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...
Page 279 - On the contrary, those who publish their thoughts in distinct sheets, and as it were by piece-meal, have none of these advantages. We must immediately fall into our subject, and treat every part of it in a lively manner, or our papers are thrown by as dull and insipid...
Page 272 - The devout man does not only believe, but feels there is a Deity. He has actual sensations of him ; his experience concurs with his reason ; he sees him more and more in all his intercourses with him, and even in this life almost loses his faith in conviction.
Page 282 - 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 coffeehouses.
Page 442 - And when the defence of the commonwealth, requireth at once the help of all that are able to bear arms, every one is obliged; because otherwise the institution of the commonwealth. which they have not the purpose, or courage to preserve, was in vain.