The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1872 |
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... remarked that the shape of her head was fine and noble , and her forehead and brows beautiful ; that her dark eyes were deep and soft ; her smile sweet and bright , and her black hair glossy , silken , and abun- dant . Clarie was very ...
... remarked that the shape of her head was fine and noble , and her forehead and brows beautiful ; that her dark eyes were deep and soft ; her smile sweet and bright , and her black hair glossy , silken , and abun- dant . Clarie was very ...
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... remark that " no classification of the mental powers has been universally accepted , " with- out apparently recognizing how enormously such a state of things detracts from the value of any comparison of the mental constitu- tion of man ...
... remark that " no classification of the mental powers has been universally accepted , " with- out apparently recognizing how enormously such a state of things detracts from the value of any comparison of the mental constitu- tion of man ...
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... remark , however , en passant that it is an assumption that dreaming is an act of the imagination , and no other proof is ad- duced that animals possess this faculty be- yond the fact that they certainly dream . As regards the faculty ...
... remark , however , en passant that it is an assumption that dreaming is an act of the imagination , and no other proof is ad- duced that animals possess this faculty be- yond the fact that they certainly dream . As regards the faculty ...
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... remark that old army officers or men rarely succeed in business undertakings in civil life ; and it is as fre- quently said that life in the army , in time of peace , unfits men for ordinary employments outside of mere routine . How can ...
... remark that old army officers or men rarely succeed in business undertakings in civil life ; and it is as fre- quently said that life in the army , in time of peace , unfits men for ordinary employments outside of mere routine . How can ...
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... remark almost pathetic in its honest simplicity . The Prussians found out the secret of this weakness , and seem to have been the only nation to have seriously set themselves to remedy the evil . They invented a method of exercising ...
... remark almost pathetic in its honest simplicity . The Prussians found out the secret of this weakness , and seem to have been the only nation to have seriously set themselves to remedy the evil . They invented a method of exercising ...
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Page 3 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 225 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 3 - Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Page 279 - Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
Page 320 - It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends, and to employ them with effect. Therefore every honourable connection will avow it is their first purpose to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution with all the power and authority of the State.
Page 450 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 226 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 223 - Moved to the window near, and see Once more before my dying eyes, ' Bathed in the sacred dews of morn The wide aerial landscape spread — The world which was ere I was born, The world which lasts when I am dead.
Page 226 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful...
Page 320 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by \ their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.