The Quarterly Review, Volume 251William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 |
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... possible in 1886 and 1887 , could receive anything more than another temporary check . From the reopening of the Eastern crisis in 1885 Bismarck had been striving to maintain good relations with Russia , and discouraging Austria from ...
... possible in 1886 and 1887 , could receive anything more than another temporary check . From the reopening of the Eastern crisis in 1885 Bismarck had been striving to maintain good relations with Russia , and discouraging Austria from ...
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... possible in every possible shape . So , ' he concludes , ' we did a good morning's work ' ( II , 53 ) . But wars are not won in this way . At every crisis of the War he was ready with a paper ; " and these papers were written with the ...
... possible in every possible shape . So , ' he concludes , ' we did a good morning's work ' ( II , 53 ) . But wars are not won in this way . At every crisis of the War he was ready with a paper ; " and these papers were written with the ...
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... possible push on in Palestine . ' " " His plan was to take troops away from France during the mud - months , and land them on the coast of Palestine ' ( II , 14 ) . These five months of mud and snow from the middle of November to the ...
... possible push on in Palestine . ' " " His plan was to take troops away from France during the mud - months , and land them on the coast of Palestine ' ( II , 14 ) . These five months of mud and snow from the middle of November to the ...
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... possible , and necessary , to dispense with all intermediaries , and deal direct with them . Complaisance in the wrong place and at the wrong time begets arrogance . Stiffness has virtue as well as suppleness . The French were led ...
... possible , and necessary , to dispense with all intermediaries , and deal direct with them . Complaisance in the wrong place and at the wrong time begets arrogance . Stiffness has virtue as well as suppleness . The French were led ...
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... possible , and for the demagogue , Demos ' son , that odious human parasite , he has less than contempt , calling him Pan's successor who ' cries aloud for the return to nature which is but the return to the beast , for a setting of the ...
... possible , and for the demagogue , Demos ' son , that odious human parasite , he has less than contempt , calling him Pan's successor who ' cries aloud for the return to nature which is but the return to the beast , for a setting of the ...
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Page 111 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 275 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
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Page 274 - THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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