The Twentieth Century, Volum 64Nineteenth Century and After, 1908 |
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Pàgina 32
... never apparently heard of them , or forgotten the services performed by such artillery in India and the Crimea , and we have had no fighting against an enemy with powerful well - trained artillery since ; but in South Africa some ...
... never apparently heard of them , or forgotten the services performed by such artillery in India and the Crimea , and we have had no fighting against an enemy with powerful well - trained artillery since ; but in South Africa some ...
Pàgina 35
... never been a time when regular artillery officers , non - commissioned officers , and men have been better trained , and they , at any rate , know what results can be expected from the various kinds of artillery in use - siege , very ...
... never been a time when regular artillery officers , non - commissioned officers , and men have been better trained , and they , at any rate , know what results can be expected from the various kinds of artillery in use - siege , very ...
Pàgina 51
... the hotel waiter in You Never Can Tell , Bluntschli in Arms and the Man- indeed , one would need to mention all his plays and a host of his characters . This contrast of ideas is obtained above all E 2 1908 51 UN NOUVEAU MOLIÈRE.
... the hotel waiter in You Never Can Tell , Bluntschli in Arms and the Man- indeed , one would need to mention all his plays and a host of his characters . This contrast of ideas is obtained above all E 2 1908 51 UN NOUVEAU MOLIÈRE.
Pàgina 62
... never know whether the author is serious or not , or rather they always think that he is joking and does not mean what he says . As regards the English and Americans , as one of them , Mr. Archibald Henderson , a great admirer of ...
... never know whether the author is serious or not , or rather they always think that he is joking and does not mean what he says . As regards the English and Americans , as one of them , Mr. Archibald Henderson , a great admirer of ...
Pàgina 67
... never ceased proclaiming from the house- tops his belief in woman and her high destiny . Never has Ruskin lost an opportunity of avowing his admiration for her gifts , her mission , and her power , provided she follows those well ...
... never ceased proclaiming from the house- tops his belief in woman and her high destiny . Never has Ruskin lost an opportunity of avowing his admiration for her gifts , her mission , and her power , provided she follows those well ...
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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'.