The Quarterly Review, Volume 227William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1917 |
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... IMPERIAL UNITY ART . 8. - GERMAN WAR LITERATURE ON THE NEar and MIDDLE EAST · · 1. The Pangerman Plan unmasked . By André Chera- dame . Murray , 1916 . 2. Der Kampf um deutsche Kulturarbeit im nahen Orient ( The struggle for German ...
... IMPERIAL UNITY ART . 8. - GERMAN WAR LITERATURE ON THE NEar and MIDDLE EAST · · 1. The Pangerman Plan unmasked . By André Chera- dame . Murray , 1916 . 2. Der Kampf um deutsche Kulturarbeit im nahen Orient ( The struggle for German ...
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... IMPERIAL UNITY PAGE · 424 440 ART . 11. - THE FLEETS OF OUR ALLIES ART . 12. THE PONTIFICATE OF PIUS X. - 452 - 461 477 - 494 - 511 1. La Politique de Pie X. By Maurice Pernot . Paris : Alcan , 1910 . 2. La Séparation des Églises et de ...
... IMPERIAL UNITY PAGE · 424 440 ART . 11. - THE FLEETS OF OUR ALLIES ART . 12. THE PONTIFICATE OF PIUS X. - 452 - 461 477 - 494 - 511 1. La Politique de Pie X. By Maurice Pernot . Paris : Alcan , 1910 . 2. La Séparation des Églises et de ...
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... Imperial Princesses have occasionally been tried for the part ; for there is no valid secular authority in Tibet or its Marches , either central or local : the whole country is under the spiritual supremacy of the Church , an organ- ism ...
... Imperial Princesses have occasionally been tried for the part ; for there is no valid secular authority in Tibet or its Marches , either central or local : the whole country is under the spiritual supremacy of the Church , an organ- ism ...
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... Imperial highroad to Holy Lhasa . Such limited authority , however , is all that China needs : her practical spirit sees no profit in the effective conquest of wild and barren mountains , even if such a conquest could be attained ...
... Imperial highroad to Holy Lhasa . Such limited authority , however , is all that China needs : her practical spirit sees no profit in the effective conquest of wild and barren mountains , even if such a conquest could be attained ...
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... imperial characters hang from the walls ; and close by the statuette itself is hung a small pearl - coloured roll of satin , on which a Princess of Chen Lung has wrought a sad and lovely little figure of Our Lady of Mercy . She hovers ...
... imperial characters hang from the walls ; and close by the statuette itself is hung a small pearl - coloured roll of satin , on which a Princess of Chen Lung has wrought a sad and lovely little figure of Our Lady of Mercy . She hovers ...
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Page 446 - tis something; we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.
Page 84 - Aux heures vulgaires nous nous servons des choses pour un usage, oubliant ceci de pur, qu'elles soient ; mais quand, après un long travail, au travers des branches et des ronces, à Midi, pénétrant historiquement au sein de la clairière, je pose ma main sur la croupe brûlante du lourd rocher, l'entrée d'Alexandre à Jérusalem est comparable à l'énormité de ma constatation.
Page 402 - His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the government, and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in these territories...
Page 401 - Batoum, Ardahan, Kars, or any of them shall be retained by Russia, and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take possession of any further territories of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia, as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms.
Page 5 - Eternal life ; and then endeavour to draw any conclusions from this assumed belief, as to their present business, they will forthwith tell you that " what you say is very beautiful, but it is not practical.
Page 105 - The noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the resources of the enemy while maintaining its own, supporting war in scenes where it does not appear itself, or appears only in the background, and striking open blows at rare intervals, though lost to most, is emphasized to the careful reader by the events of this war and of the halfcentury that followed.
Page 21 - In every country in which a large standing army is kept up, the finest young men are taken by the conscription or are enlisted. They are thus exposed to early death during war, are often tempted into vice, and are prevented from marrying during the prime of life. On the other hand the shorter and feebler men, with poor constitutions, are left at home, and consequently have a much better chance of marrying and propagating their kind.
Page 446 - Runs it not here, the track by Childsworth Farm, Past the high wood, to where the elm-tree crowns The hill behind whose ridge the sunset flames? The signal-elm, that looks on Ilsley Downs, The Vale, the three lone weirs, the youthful Thames?
Page 520 - It would give us the advantage of having the Russian wheat, and enable Russia to resume exports; This would restore the Russian exchanges, which were falling owing to her inability to export, and causing great embarrassment; It would also open a passage to the Danube. It was difficult to imagine a more helpful operation.
Page 446 - And thou from earth art gone Long since, and in some quiet churchyard laid — Some country-nook, where o'er thy unknown grave Tall grasses and white flowering nettles wave, Under a dark, red-fruited yew-tree's shade.