The Anglo-Saxon Review, Volume 7John Lane, 1900 The covers are reproductions of rare bookbindings. Each volume has "Note on the binding ... By Cyril Davenport." |
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... character of blocks engraved with a view to printing in ink than that of being impressed on gold . In the latter case the delicate lines are apt to be lost : the impression becomes heavy , more or less meaningless , and generally ...
... character of blocks engraved with a view to printing in ink than that of being impressed on gold . In the latter case the delicate lines are apt to be lost : the impression becomes heavy , more or less meaningless , and generally ...
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... character has more likeness to the Anglo - Saxon on this side of the Atlantic than that of any other nation in Europe except the Dane . The Russians may not like us , because they do not know us ; but they respect the type represented ...
... character has more likeness to the Anglo - Saxon on this side of the Atlantic than that of any other nation in Europe except the Dane . The Russians may not like us , because they do not know us ; but they respect the type represented ...
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... character and aims of the British people . The first time that Mr. Chamberlain visited the United States , he said to a large meet- ing in Philadelphia that what was wanted was a new Columbus to set out from America in order to discover ...
... character and aims of the British people . The first time that Mr. Chamberlain visited the United States , he said to a large meet- ing in Philadelphia that what was wanted was a new Columbus to set out from America in order to discover ...
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... character of newspaper Correspondents on both sides of the Atlantic must be levelled up . Washington and Chicago , Philadelphia and St. Louis , must not be neglected , and the London representatives of American newspapers should be ...
... character of newspaper Correspondents on both sides of the Atlantic must be levelled up . Washington and Chicago , Philadelphia and St. Louis , must not be neglected , and the London representatives of American newspapers should be ...
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... character , on both sides of the ocean , is pride . Now that the population of these Islands is but little more than a moiety of the population of the States , and the economic centre of the world is shifting from London to the West ...
... character , on both sides of the ocean , is pride . Now that the population of these Islands is but little more than a moiety of the population of the States , and the economic centre of the world is shifting from London to the West ...
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Page 204 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 204 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 215 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 211 - I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country and Constitution all together.
Page 209 - I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 211 - I .did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
Page 206 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 32 - O Maker of sweet poets, dear delight Of this fair world, and all its gentle livers; Spangler of clouds, halo of crystal rivers...
Page 32 - ... of pride, Drooping its beauty o'er the watery clearness, To woo its own sad image into nearness: Deaf to light Zephyrus it would not move ; But still would seem to droop, to pine, to love. So while the Poet stood in this sweet spot, Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot ; Nor was it long ere he had told the tale Of young Narcissus, and sad Echo's bale.
Page 50 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.