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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... 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.
... 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 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...