The Quarterly Review, Volume 217William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 |
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... present position is that a marked revival of Protestantism in religion and thought should synchronise with the acute medievalising of what is historically the foremost of the Protestant Churches . The most disquieting features of the ...
... present position is that a marked revival of Protestantism in religion and thought should synchronise with the acute medievalising of what is historically the foremost of the Protestant Churches . The most disquieting features of the ...
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... present boarder . Nil is the new man , the type of the future ; old- fashioned folk would call him proud , rude , ungrateful and rather stupid . What does it matter ? He is strong and young , self - reliant , jovial ; he loves work ...
... present boarder . Nil is the new man , the type of the future ; old- fashioned folk would call him proud , rude , ungrateful and rather stupid . What does it matter ? He is strong and young , self - reliant , jovial ; he loves work ...
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... present condition of the people of England . " Statistics of mortality are commonly adduced as evidence of the vitality or otherwise of a nation ; and , in regard to these , the England of to - day probably compares favourably with that ...
... present condition of the people of England . " Statistics of mortality are commonly adduced as evidence of the vitality or otherwise of a nation ; and , in regard to these , the England of to - day probably compares favourably with that ...
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... present time there is one pauper to every forty- five persons in England and Wales . And it is to be re- membered that these figures relate to ' official ' pauperism only . On March 31 , 1910 , there were in England and Wales 441,489 ...
... present time there is one pauper to every forty- five persons in England and Wales . And it is to be re- membered that these figures relate to ' official ' pauperism only . On March 31 , 1910 , there were in England and Wales 441,489 ...
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... present England contains an increasing number of people who are failing to adapt themselves to the exigencies of the times , who are not keeping pace with the increasing demands which civilisation entails , and who are deficient in the ...
... present England contains an increasing number of people who are failing to adapt themselves to the exigencies of the times , who are not keeping pace with the increasing demands which civilisation entails , and who are deficient in the ...
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Page 304 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise.
Page 532 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 161 - The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant lights - a ship carrying the burden of millions of lives - a ship freighted with dross and with jewels, with gold and with steel. She towered up immense and strong, guarding priceless traditions and untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship! For ages had the ocean battered in vain her enduring sides; she was there when the...
Page 191 - ... advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented...
Page 559 - Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity to stand by one another in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom and in using all means which may be found 108 necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland.
Page 1 - For man's character has been moulded by his every-day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and the two great forming agencies of the world's history have been the religious and the economic.
Page 560 - Majesty's authority, with our best counsel, our bodies, means, and whole power, against all sorts of persons whatsoever; so that whatsoever shall be done to the least of us for that cause, shall be taken as done to us all in general, and to every one of us in particular.
Page 548 - We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 175 - Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity.
Page 397 - For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth. And in the million-millionth of a grain Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, And ever vanishing, never vanishes. To me, my son, more mystic than myself, Or even than the Nameless is to me. And when thou sendest thy free soul thro' heaven, Nor understandest bound nor boundlessness, Thou...