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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... hand . In a former number of the ANGLO - SAXON REVIEW Napoleon was shown on the threshold of his greatness . The Imperial wreath as yet adorned not his head , that wreath which was to prove a fillet of care and suffering to himself and ...
... hand . In a former number of the ANGLO - SAXON REVIEW Napoleon was shown on the threshold of his greatness . The Imperial wreath as yet adorned not his head , that wreath which was to prove a fillet of care and suffering to himself and ...
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... hands , couchant lions , stoats , coronets , organs , baldacchinos , stars , and concentric circles . The arrangement of these details is not quite the same on each side ; but the differences are so unimportant that they can be ...
... hands , couchant lions , stoats , coronets , organs , baldacchinos , stars , and concentric circles . The arrangement of these details is not quite the same on each side ; but the differences are so unimportant that they can be ...
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... hand , the inordinate space devoted by American newspapers to the sayings and doings of persons , who not only command no weight in this country , but also are uninteresting in themselves , is a growing evil . The misrepresentation of ...
... hand , the inordinate space devoted by American newspapers to the sayings and doings of persons , who not only command no weight in this country , but also are uninteresting in themselves , is a growing evil . The misrepresentation of ...
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... and combining with the other branch of the race in the British Isles . On the other hand , the apathy and indifference of the British people , their addiction to sport , and their general taste for a policy 20 ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
... and combining with the other branch of the race in the British Isles . On the other hand , the apathy and indifference of the British people , their addiction to sport , and their general taste for a policy 20 ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
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... hand , discern the evolution of an Irish question in the United States which , compared with the Irish question in England , is as water unto wine . Sympathy between us in our Irish troubles is a course dictated no less by prudence than ...
... hand , discern the evolution of an Irish question in the United States which , compared with the Irish question in England , is as water unto wine . Sympathy between us in our Irish troubles is a course dictated no less by prudence than ...
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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.