The Quarterly Review, Volume 223John Murray, 1915 |
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Page 67
... guns , and is further circum- scribed by the coal - supply . Naval guns can do little more than bombard coasts , and without an adequate supply of steam - power the best ships cannot keep up their speed . What the Ottoman fleet has ...
... guns , and is further circum- scribed by the coal - supply . Naval guns can do little more than bombard coasts , and without an adequate supply of steam - power the best ships cannot keep up their speed . What the Ottoman fleet has ...
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... guns including numerous howitzers of large calibre , was also employed . The retreat of the Germans from the Marne had been so hurried that it seemed likely at first that the heights north of the Aisne were being held merely as a ...
... guns including numerous howitzers of large calibre , was also employed . The retreat of the Germans from the Marne had been so hurried that it seemed likely at first that the heights north of the Aisne were being held merely as a ...
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the defensive arrangements . Wire entanglements were lavishly used ; guns commanded the approaches from concealed positions ; and machine - guns hidden in short lengths of trench projecting from the general line brought a cross - fire ...
the defensive arrangements . Wire entanglements were lavishly used ; guns commanded the approaches from concealed positions ; and machine - guns hidden in short lengths of trench projecting from the general line brought a cross - fire ...
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... guns and armour . Each improvement in guns has neces- sitated a corresponding advance in protective structures ; and hitherto - on land at least - the gun has always come out second - best . At sea the conditions are different . There ...
... guns and armour . Each improvement in guns has neces- sitated a corresponding advance in protective structures ; and hitherto - on land at least - the gun has always come out second - best . At sea the conditions are different . There ...
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... guns . The situation frequently results in the lost position being almost immediately regained . Referring to the German attack on Nov. 11 , the severest that our troops sustained , Sir John French's despatch , published on Nov. 30 ...
... guns . The situation frequently results in the lost position being almost immediately regained . Referring to the German attack on Nov. 11 , the severest that our troops sustained , Sir John French's despatch , published on Nov. 30 ...
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Page 38 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 69 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 522 - Hindus; their pictures surpass our conception of things. Few indeed in the whole world are found equal to them."11 The emperor greatly valued painting.
Page 212 - It is to be understood that in any matter of great importance the First Sea Lord is always to be consulted by the other Sea Lords, the Civil Lord, the Additional Civil Lord, and the Parliamentary and Permanent Secretaries ; but each Member of the Board and the Parliamentary and Permanent Secretaries will communicate direct with the First Lord.
Page 522 - God ; for a painter in sketching anything that has life, and in devising its limbs, one after the other, must come to feel that he cannot bestow individuality upon his work, and is thus forced to think of God, the giver of life, and will thus increase in knowledge.
Page 566 - Belligerents are forbidden to move across the territory of a neutral power troops or convoys either of munitions of war or of supplies.
Page 225 - And Holland J (Dec. 31, 1831) tells Brougham that the Cabinet has agreed that pressure should be put on Prussia in the opposite direction ! Adroitly invoking the neutralisation of Belgium, Talleyrand had instigated the demolition of the Belgian fortresses, which Britain had insisted on erecting in 1815 at a cost of 7,000,000Z.
Page 208 - Council (the master-general of ordnance) to be responsible to the Secretary of state for the administration of so much of the business relating to the organization, disposition, personnel, armament, and maintenance of the army as shall be assigned to them or each of them from time to time by the secretary of state.
Page 41 - Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces.
Page 579 - When the merchant vessel is of the nationality of the belligerent whose warship is known to be off the coast ; (c) When a merchant vessel which has on a previous voyage between ports of the United States and ports of other neutral states failed to have on board at the port of arrival a cargo consisting of naval supplies shipped at the port of departure seeks to take on board a similar cargo ; (d) When coal or other supplies are purchased by an agent of a belligerent government and shipped on board...