The Twentieth Century, Volum 64Nineteenth Century and After, 1908 |
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... Lord Beaconsfield , ' the very phrase " Foreign Affairs " makes an Englishman convinced that they are subjects with which he has no concern . ' Englishmen grow up nourished on party politics , and party politics continue to be their ...
... Lord Beaconsfield , ' the very phrase " Foreign Affairs " makes an Englishman convinced that they are subjects with which he has no concern . ' Englishmen grow up nourished on party politics , and party politics continue to be their ...
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... Lord Lansdowne said , a colossal project and a tremendous plunge , nor is it necessary . The greater portion of the volunteer artillery should consist of semi - mobile or light position batteries on the prin- ciple well understood and ...
... Lord Lansdowne said , a colossal project and a tremendous plunge , nor is it necessary . The greater portion of the volunteer artillery should consist of semi - mobile or light position batteries on the prin- ciple well understood and ...
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... Lord Roberts , Lord Denbigh , nor other critics object to twenty or thirty volunteer field batteries being included in the second line . On this point Lord Roberts said in the House of Lords ( on the 18th of May ) : As regarded Lord ...
... Lord Roberts , Lord Denbigh , nor other critics object to twenty or thirty volunteer field batteries being included in the second line . On this point Lord Roberts said in the House of Lords ( on the 18th of May ) : As regarded Lord ...
Pàgina 30
... Lord Denbigh , who was for some years an officer of the Royal Field Artillery , both at home and on active service ... Lord Roberts observed in the House of Lords , they had some three months ' training in the field before they were ...
... Lord Denbigh , who was for some years an officer of the Royal Field Artillery , both at home and on active service ... Lord Roberts observed in the House of Lords , they had some three months ' training in the field before they were ...
Pàgina 32
... Lord Lucas , now Under - Secretary of State for War , stated in a paper read after a dinner of the National Defence Associa- tion : ' If I could borrow the King's outriders to drive my guns , and a picked team from Maxim's works to fire ...
... Lord Lucas , now Under - Secretary of State for War , stated in a paper read after a dinner of the National Defence Associa- tion : ' If I could borrow the King's outriders to drive my guns , and a picked team from Maxim's works to fire ...
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Pàgina 610 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Pàgina 429 - The rod and reproof give wisdom ; but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to shame.
Pàgina 266 - In the most literal of senses, "the earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; and these are of them.
Pàgina 654 - Powers, signed a declaration affirming it to be " an essential principle of the law of nations that no Power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting parties by means of an amicable arrangement.
Pàgina 67 - We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the " superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.
Pàgina 67 - In so far as it is not this, it is not home ; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently-minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home ; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods...
Pàgina 482 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Pàgina 67 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.
Pàgina 617 - Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Pàgina 186 - Hicky described his publication as a 'weekly political and commercial paper open to all parties but influenced by none'.