The Quarterly Review, Volume 233William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1920 |
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... Russia . The hostilities with France , in 1884 , served also to foster the growth of a defiant spirit , for they ended , unlike previous conflicts , with no clearly marked victory of the Western Power . The period was one in which there ...
... Russia . The hostilities with France , in 1884 , served also to foster the growth of a defiant spirit , for they ended , unlike previous conflicts , with no clearly marked victory of the Western Power . The period was one in which there ...
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... Russia's interests was emphasised in 1881 , when her unwillingness to restore Ili to China brought the two Powers to the verge of war ; and the conflict between France and China in 1884 had its rise in a frontier dispute with which ...
... Russia's interests was emphasised in 1881 , when her unwillingness to restore Ili to China brought the two Powers to the verge of war ; and the conflict between France and China in 1884 had its rise in a frontier dispute with which ...
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... Russia . To neither of them was a disturbance of the peace of the Far East welcome ; and they made united efforts to avert it by putting pressure on China to make such concessions as Japan would accept . But these efforts failed , and ...
... Russia . To neither of them was a disturbance of the peace of the Far East welcome ; and they made united efforts to avert it by putting pressure on China to make such concessions as Japan would accept . But these efforts failed , and ...
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... Russia , as M. Gérard observes ( p . 91 ) , was to gather from the Liaotung intervention the most abundant fruit ' ; but the first Power to profit by it was France , owing to her being , at the moment , engaged in negotia- tions for the ...
... Russia , as M. Gérard observes ( p . 91 ) , was to gather from the Liaotung intervention the most abundant fruit ' ; but the first Power to profit by it was France , owing to her being , at the moment , engaged in negotia- tions for the ...
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... Russian Governments in China's favour , ' the French Foreign Minister , conscious of the service rendered to the Central Empire , ' instructed the French representative at Peking to press for the immediate conclusion of the negotiations ...
... Russian Governments in China's favour , ' the French Foreign Minister , conscious of the service rendered to the Central Empire , ' instructed the French representative at Peking to press for the immediate conclusion of the negotiations ...
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Page 236 - I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
Page 316 - shall concurre with his sorrow, to his farther vexation. No one wicked person, by any diversion or cunning, shall avoid this sorrow, for it is in the midst, and in the end of all his forced contentments; Even in laughing, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness!
Page 433 - The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness, should be abhorrent and detestable, even if it were possible, even if it enriched ourselves, even if it did not sow the decay of the whole civilised life of Europe.
Page 226 - The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 425 - binding character; for one of the conditions of it was that Germany should agree to Armistice terms, which were to be such as would leave her helpless. Germany having rendered herself helpless in reliance on the Contract, the honour of the Allies was peculiarly involved in fulfilling their part, and, if there were ambiguities,
Page 316 - the Prison, and the place of Execution, does any man sleep? And we sleep all the way; from the womb to the grave we are never throughly awake ; but passe on with such dreames, and imaginations as these, I may live as well, as another, and why should I dye, rather then another? but awake, and tell me,
Page 217 - This Church, as part of the Universal Church wherein the Lord Jesus Christ has appointed a government in the hands of Church Office-Bearers, receives from Him, its Divine King and Head, and from Him alone, the right and power, subject to no civil authority, to legislate and to adjudicate finally in all matters of doctrine, worship, government, and
Page 427 - The war had so shaken this system as to endanger the life of Europe altogether. A great part of the Continent was sick and dying; its population was greatly in excess of the numbers for which a livelihood was available ; its organisation was destroyed, its transport system ruptured,
Page 218 - The Church has the right to interpret these Articles, and, subject to the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to modify or add to them, but always consistently with the first Article hereof, adherence to which, as interpreted by the Church, is essential to its continuity and corporate life.
Page 217 - This Church has the inherent right, free from interference by civil authority, but under the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to frame or adopt its subordinate standards, to declare the sense in which it understands its Confession of Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein,