The Quarterly Review, Volum 233William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1920 |
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Pàgina 26
... in anything but his military duties . It is hardly wonder- ful , therefore , that on leaving the army he found him- self uprooted and out of touch with his contemporaries . In the case of officers this divorce from the civil ( 26 )
... in anything but his military duties . It is hardly wonder- ful , therefore , that on leaving the army he found him- self uprooted and out of touch with his contemporaries . In the case of officers this divorce from the civil ( 26 )
Pàgina 27
... officers this divorce from the civil com- munity was not quite so apparent . They mixed more with men of other professions and , having a more permanent career than the rank and file , did not find themselves uprooted at so early an age ...
... officers this divorce from the civil com- munity was not quite so apparent . They mixed more with men of other professions and , having a more permanent career than the rank and file , did not find themselves uprooted at so early an age ...
Pàgina 28
... officers an object in their military careers , which had not always been apparent under previous systems in peace- time . Still , for many years before 1914 , the strength was below establishment ; and it was found impossible to obtain ...
... officers an object in their military careers , which had not always been apparent under previous systems in peace- time . Still , for many years before 1914 , the strength was below establishment ; and it was found impossible to obtain ...
Pàgina 30
... officers knew little and cared less about any form of training not obviously of a military nature , and to a large extent ignored the new regulations . On the other hand , the enthusiasts for the change were given their chance of ...
... officers knew little and cared less about any form of training not obviously of a military nature , and to a large extent ignored the new regulations . On the other hand , the enthusiasts for the change were given their chance of ...
Pàgina 31
... officer was appointed to G.H.Q. to co - ordinate and systematise the courses of lectures given to the troops . The choice of this officer , Captain Borden Turner , was singularly happy , for he proved to be one of those unconventional ...
... officer was appointed to G.H.Q. to co - ordinate and systematise the courses of lectures given to the troops . The choice of this officer , Captain Borden Turner , was singularly happy , for he proved to be one of those unconventional ...
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Pàgina 236 - I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
Pàgina 316 - shall concurre with his sorrow, to his farther vexation. No one wicked person, by any diversion or cunning, shall avoid this sorrow, for it is in the midst, and in the end of all his forced contentments; Even in laughing, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness!
Pàgina 433 - The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness, should be abhorrent and detestable, even if it were possible, even if it enriched ourselves, even if it did not sow the decay of the whole civilised life of Europe.
Pàgina 226 - The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Pàgina 425 - binding character; for one of the conditions of it was that Germany should agree to Armistice terms, which were to be such as would leave her helpless. Germany having rendered herself helpless in reliance on the Contract, the honour of the Allies was peculiarly involved in fulfilling their part, and, if there were ambiguities,
Pàgina 316 - the Prison, and the place of Execution, does any man sleep? And we sleep all the way; from the womb to the grave we are never throughly awake ; but passe on with such dreames, and imaginations as these, I may live as well, as another, and why should I dye, rather then another? but awake, and tell me,
Pàgina 217 - This Church, as part of the Universal Church wherein the Lord Jesus Christ has appointed a government in the hands of Church Office-Bearers, receives from Him, its Divine King and Head, and from Him alone, the right and power, subject to no civil authority, to legislate and to adjudicate finally in all matters of doctrine, worship, government, and
Pàgina 427 - The war had so shaken this system as to endanger the life of Europe altogether. A great part of the Continent was sick and dying; its population was greatly in excess of the numbers for which a livelihood was available ; its organisation was destroyed, its transport system ruptured,
Pàgina 218 - The Church has the right to interpret these Articles, and, subject to the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to modify or add to them, but always consistently with the first Article hereof, adherence to which, as interpreted by the Church, is essential to its continuity and corporate life.
Pàgina 217 - This Church has the inherent right, free from interference by civil authority, but under the safeguards for deliberate action and legislation provided by the Church itself, to frame or adopt its subordinate standards, to declare the sense in which it understands its Confession of Faith, to modify the forms of expression therein,