The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen192A. Constable, 1900 |
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... never been able to carry out ; it had only become possible when , consequent on the War of the Roses , a strong king found himself unopposed by a turbulent and powerful baronage , and thus independent of the Pope's alliance . The ...
... never been able to carry out ; it had only become possible when , consequent on the War of the Roses , a strong king found himself unopposed by a turbulent and powerful baronage , and thus independent of the Pope's alliance . The ...
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... never be forgotten . If , says Captain Chevalier , the result in question is brought about , England is freed from all apprehension of attacks on her home terri- tory and her outlying possessions , and can utilise the whole of her naval ...
... never be forgotten . If , says Captain Chevalier , the result in question is brought about , England is freed from all apprehension of attacks on her home terri- tory and her outlying possessions , and can utilise the whole of her naval ...
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... never been denied . Nevertheless it is the fact that in no maritime war that we have waged with her did France so little make commerce - destroying a leading characteristic of her strategy . Only by military command of the sea , ' says ...
... never been denied . Nevertheless it is the fact that in no maritime war that we have waged with her did France so little make commerce - destroying a leading characteristic of her strategy . Only by military command of the sea , ' says ...
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... never stronger on the sea than we were during the war which began in 1803 and ended with the fall of Napoleon I. Never was our commerce more formidably attacked than during the last years of that great contest . The French had ...
... never stronger on the sea than we were during the war which began in 1803 and ended with the fall of Napoleon I. Never was our commerce more formidably attacked than during the last years of that great contest . The French had ...
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... never to have been more profound or more invul- nerable than at the very epoch when the savage failures to scale those moral heights were most grossly apparent ; when every exploit to lift man above the tide of his vices and brutalities ...
... never to have been more profound or more invul- nerable than at the very epoch when the savage failures to scale those moral heights were most grossly apparent ; when every exploit to lift man above the tide of his vices and brutalities ...
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Página 372 - What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Página 373 - falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
Página 371 - And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have pass'd away, I might have watch'd through long decay.
Página 373 - Is it some yet imperial hope , That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone ? To die a prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI.
Página 384 - The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.
Página 270 - Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN while TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, , ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,
Página 103 - I had received from his Majesty, to add that, in the present instance, his Majesty does not intend to depart from the usual course of proceeding on such occasions. I am sorry to have delayed some hours this answer to your Grace's letter : but from the nature of the subject I did not like to forward it without having previously submitted it (together with your Grace's letter) to his Majesty.
Página 309 - Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.
Página 255 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws...
Página 262 - No appeal shall be permitted to the Queen in Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se...