The Twentieth Century, Volum 64Nineteenth Century and After, 1908 |
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... important strategical and commercial positions in Central Europe are in the hands of Germany's , small neighbours . Denmark has excellent harbours and dominates the entrance to the Baltic . The possession of Denmark would supply the ...
... important strategical and commercial positions in Central Europe are in the hands of Germany's , small neighbours . Denmark has excellent harbours and dominates the entrance to the Baltic . The possession of Denmark would supply the ...
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... important branches - if , indeed , not the most important branch -of the public service , and should be strengthened until it can meet its duties . Under existing arrangements young Englishmen are appointed to the Department direct from ...
... important branches - if , indeed , not the most important branch -of the public service , and should be strengthened until it can meet its duties . Under existing arrangements young Englishmen are appointed to the Department direct from ...
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... important duties of a field artilleryman is to look after his horse in barracks , in camp , on the march , and in the field - in fact , everywhere ; for what is the good of a battery on service which loses and kills its horses by ...
... important duties of a field artilleryman is to look after his horse in barracks , in camp , on the march , and in the field - in fact , everywhere ; for what is the good of a battery on service which loses and kills its horses by ...
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... had hardened into efficiency , ' is rather vague and not very practical . VOL . LXIV - No . 377 Mr. Haldane's idea D The following is what Mr. Haldane calls important evidence of 1908 MR . HALDANE'S TERRITORIAL ARTILLERY 83.
... had hardened into efficiency , ' is rather vague and not very practical . VOL . LXIV - No . 377 Mr. Haldane's idea D The following is what Mr. Haldane calls important evidence of 1908 MR . HALDANE'S TERRITORIAL ARTILLERY 83.
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The following is what Mr. Haldane calls important evidence of the value of volunteer artillery : This was particularly made manifest during the special manœuvre training in Scotland last year , when Scottish volunteer artillery was ...
The following is what Mr. Haldane calls important evidence of the value of volunteer artillery : This was particularly made manifest during the special manœuvre training in Scotland last year , when Scottish volunteer artillery was ...
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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'.