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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... armies come into being , the qualities of combination , of willing obedience , of unhesitating self - sacrifice , become necessary for success . They acquire biological survival value , ' and thus , by heredity , become ingrained in the ...
... armies come into being , the qualities of combination , of willing obedience , of unhesitating self - sacrifice , become necessary for success . They acquire biological survival value , ' and thus , by heredity , become ingrained in the ...
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... of humanity itself . But let us count the cost , and seek a possible remedy . In some respects the present war has been especially disastrous to Great Britain . Nations with conscript armies prepared THE WAR AND THE RACE 25.
... of humanity itself . But let us count the cost , and seek a possible remedy . In some respects the present war has been especially disastrous to Great Britain . Nations with conscript armies prepared THE WAR AND THE RACE 25.
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... armies prepared in peace and drawn from the whole people suffer a loss of life roughly distributed over all classes . That is not so with us . The old standing army of the United Kingdom supplied the whole of the original Expeditionary ...
... armies prepared in peace and drawn from the whole people suffer a loss of life roughly distributed over all classes . That is not so with us . The old standing army of the United Kingdom supplied the whole of the original Expeditionary ...
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... armies , such as that of Starr Jordan , rests on a blind confusion between these two quite different things . A more serious evil is the prevalence in some armies , especially in the past , of contagious diseases . But THE WAR AND THE ...
... armies , such as that of Starr Jordan , rests on a blind confusion between these two quite different things . A more serious evil is the prevalence in some armies , especially in the past , of contagious diseases . But THE WAR AND THE ...
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... armies move . Many times in vital directions it has shaped the course of land strategy . Open transit at sea is at the very root of all that the Allies do . The want of such transit is at the root of many things the enemy cannot do ...
... armies move . Many times in vital directions it has shaped the course of land strategy . Open transit at sea is at the very root of all that the Allies do . The want of such transit is at the root of many things the enemy cannot do ...
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Page 470 - Dip down upon the northern shore, O sweet new-year delaying long ; Thou doest expectant nature wrong ; Delaying long, delay no more. What stays thee from the clouded noons, Thy sweetness from its proper place ? Can trouble live with April days, Or sadness in the summer moons ? Bring orchis, bring the foxglove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue, Deep tulips dash'd with fiery dew, Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.
Page 472 - 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 428 - 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 7 - 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 469 - Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow.
Page 425 - If 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 117 - 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 23 - 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 472 - 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 472 - 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.