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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... directing ability of the great engineers , merchants , physicians , and captains of labour , when associated with Irish names , is invariably found to be that of the descendants of Anglo - Saxon colonists who have settled in Ireland ...
... directing ability of the great engineers , merchants , physicians , and captains of labour , when associated with Irish names , is invariably found to be that of the descendants of Anglo - Saxon colonists who have settled in Ireland ...
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... directed by the mutual persuasion of the actors themselves rather than by the rude intrusion of the outer world . There will be no " strangeness " in it , no fantasy ; its picturesqueness shall be of the most civilised order . It shall ...
... directed by the mutual persuasion of the actors themselves rather than by the rude intrusion of the outer world . There will be no " strangeness " in it , no fantasy ; its picturesqueness shall be of the most civilised order . It shall ...
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... was outraged , and the outrage was directed against the principles upon which the whole fabric of Empire rests . It was clear that , if England was to hold her ground in the sight of the nations , 44 POETRY OF THE CAMPAIGN.
... was outraged , and the outrage was directed against the principles upon which the whole fabric of Empire rests . It was clear that , if England was to hold her ground in the sight of the nations , 44 POETRY OF THE CAMPAIGN.
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... directed it in collective strength against Blucher and Wellington , whose armies were danger- ously scattered along the Belgian frontier ; at the outset he gained success of the most important kind ; and , but for accidents that cannot ...
... directed it in collective strength against Blucher and Wellington , whose armies were danger- ously scattered along the Belgian frontier ; at the outset he gained success of the most important kind ; and , but for accidents that cannot ...
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... directed , the efforts of wild patriotism would have proved fruitless . Paris must have fallen soon after Neerwinden . But the allies were divided in mind and in policy . The German Powers had their eyes set on Poland ; England was ...
... directed , the efforts of wild patriotism would have proved fruitless . Paris must have fallen soon after Neerwinden . But the allies were divided in mind and in policy . The German Powers had their eyes set on Poland ; England was ...
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Page 203 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth...
Page 196 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 191 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 192 - 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.
Page 203 - 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 197 - 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 194 - 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 199 - I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even 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 203 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 39 - What, you are stepping westward?" "WHAT, you are stepping westward?" — "Yea." — 'Twould be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance: Yet who would stop, or fear to advance, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? The dewy ground was dark and cold; Behind, all gloomy to behold...