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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... carried them , by the time of their coming of age in the later 1830's and 1840's , to a height of one inch greater than that of the earlier generations born in war time . The average height of the annual conscription contingents born ...
... carried them , by the time of their coming of age in the later 1830's and 1840's , to a height of one inch greater than that of the earlier generations born in war time . The average height of the annual conscription contingents born ...
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... of readjustment outlined which is similar in principle to that here advocated , though it is elaborated in greater and somewhat different detail . carried out , it remains true that economic causes are 36 THE WAR AND THE RACE.
... of readjustment outlined which is similar in principle to that here advocated , though it is elaborated in greater and somewhat different detail . carried out , it remains true that economic causes are 36 THE WAR AND THE RACE.
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... carried out , it remains true that economic causes are not the only ones at work in our diminished birth - rate ; and a change of psychological attitude in the classes affected is needed . We must educate potential parents of sound ...
... carried out , it remains true that economic causes are not the only ones at work in our diminished birth - rate ; and a change of psychological attitude in the classes affected is needed . We must educate potential parents of sound ...
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... carried on in the hands of de Wilde , Clint , Harlowe and others to the middle of the 19th century . He was , moreover , a fashionable portrait painter in the classical age of English portrait painting ; and , if his larger portraits do ...
... carried on in the hands of de Wilde , Clint , Harlowe and others to the middle of the 19th century . He was , moreover , a fashionable portrait painter in the classical age of English portrait painting ; and , if his larger portraits do ...
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... carry him off like a hog to his lodgings . But Zoffany had a shrewd eye for the main chance , and soon made more profitable friendships than these . Very early in his career the second Lord Barrington sat to him ; and the portrait ...
... carry him off like a hog to his lodgings . But Zoffany had a shrewd eye for the main chance , and soon made more profitable friendships than these . Very early in his career the second Lord Barrington sat to him ; and the portrait ...
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Page 468 - 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 470 - 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 426 - 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 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 467 - 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 423 - 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 115 - 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 470 - 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 470 - 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.