The Twentieth Century, Volum 64Nineteenth Century and After, 1908 |
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Pàgina 8
... force drawn from the united Powers of Europe , were meant to be defended by the united Powers of Europe against France in case of war . Up to the Franco - German War of 1870-71 Switzerland , Belgium , and Holland saw in France their ...
... force drawn from the united Powers of Europe , were meant to be defended by the united Powers of Europe against France in case of war . Up to the Franco - German War of 1870-71 Switzerland , Belgium , and Holland saw in France their ...
Pàgina 20
... force by force ; and rioting ensued , which compelled the Govern- ment to draft bodies of special police into the districts , and placed it in the awkward position of punishing large numbers of loyal Musal- mans because they resented ...
... force by force ; and rioting ensued , which compelled the Govern- ment to draft bodies of special police into the districts , and placed it in the awkward position of punishing large numbers of loyal Musal- mans because they resented ...
Pàgina 26
... forces , and enabling the latter to afford an efficient support to the former in time of war . Of the auxiliary forces ... force would , if organized in brigades like regular field artillery , with ammunition columns , require in time of ...
... forces , and enabling the latter to afford an efficient support to the former in time of war . Of the auxiliary forces ... force would , if organized in brigades like regular field artillery , with ammunition columns , require in time of ...
Pàgina 27
... force as 196 field batteries could be surmounted ; but , if they could be , the greatest difficulty of all would be the training of the batteries , which would take up far more time than volunteer troops could afford to give , although ...
... force as 196 field batteries could be surmounted ; but , if they could be , the greatest difficulty of all would be the training of the batteries , which would take up far more time than volunteer troops could afford to give , although ...
Pàgina 28
... forces , which could be brought over - sea for raiding purposes . To resist invasion by a large army , if such could be landed on our shores , a very large force of regular field artillery , besides any Territorial artillery , would be ...
... forces , which could be brought over - sea for raiding purposes . To resist invasion by a large army , if such could be landed on our shores , a very large force of regular field artillery , besides any Territorial artillery , would be ...
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Passatges populars
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'.