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Page 9
... any deep - water channel across Central America would constitute a most
essential part of our national coast line . England ' s interest in the Suez canal on
account of her hold upon India has a very shadowy validity in the nature of things
...
... any deep - water channel across Central America would constitute a most
essential part of our national coast line . England ' s interest in the Suez canal on
account of her hold upon India has a very shadowy validity in the nature of things
...
Page 20
Of one thing we may be quite sure . The policy of the “ stingy stepmother " will
never command the enthusiasm of the teachers . . . The most important event in
the BritCecil Rhodes and South ish colonial world has been the arrival African ...
Of one thing we may be quite sure . The policy of the “ stingy stepmother " will
never command the enthusiasm of the teachers . . . The most important event in
the BritCecil Rhodes and South ish colonial world has been the arrival African ...
Page 67
If a thing needed atsity of bringing forward for discussion particular tention , no
matter whose business it was , he looked events which invite an original
exhaustive research after it . Reading letters once before Madame Junot , nd
learned ...
If a thing needed atsity of bringing forward for discussion particular tention , no
matter whose business it was , he looked events which invite an original
exhaustive research after it . Reading letters once before Madame Junot , nd
learned ...
Page 87
It seems to the writer that if critical study of the world ever dulls a man ' s religious
sense , or fails to foster his appre - ciation of divine things , it must be because he
has gotten himself involved in some false theory or method , or because he is ...
It seems to the writer that if critical study of the world ever dulls a man ' s religious
sense , or fails to foster his appre - ciation of divine things , it must be because he
has gotten himself involved in some false theory or method , or because he is ...
Page 95
He should not suddenly and harshly shock his audience ' s prejudices - e . g . , by
saying smart things at the expense of an author generally beloved , like
Longfellow , or Lew Wallace . Nor should his hearers be rudely re - minded of
their own ...
He should not suddenly and harshly shock his audience ' s prejudices - e . g . , by
saying smart things at the expense of an author generally beloved , like
Longfellow , or Lew Wallace . Nor should his hearers be rudely re - minded of
their own ...
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Page 472 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Page 54 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.
Page 173 - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page 53 - In return His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the Government and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in these territories.
Page 434 - We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed...
Page 53 - Russia to take possession of any further territories of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia, as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms.
Page 345 - Work thou for pleasure; paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve. Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.
Page 372 - Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another : such as the excise or customs.
Page 43 - By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another,' laid aside all strife, and all former enmity.
Page 109 - Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general officers who did not exercise a separate command. He commanded a corps longer than any other one, and his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible.
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| Title | The Review of Reviews, Volume 11 |
| Editor | Albert Shaw |
| Publisher | Review of Reviews, 1895 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jul 2005 |
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