The Contemporary Review, Volume 74A. Strahan, 1898 |
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... officer himself brutally tortured prisoners by tearing off their nails to make them reveal the hiding place of other ... officers live in luxury while bodies of starved victims are picked up on the benches below every day . Most THE ...
... officer himself brutally tortured prisoners by tearing off their nails to make them reveal the hiding place of other ... officers live in luxury while bodies of starved victims are picked up on the benches below every day . Most THE ...
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... into the cities . Even the cattle they captured were slaughtered on the spot to prevent the insurgents getting them , and by April of 1897 the stock was practically extinct . The Spanish officers during 8 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
... into the cities . Even the cattle they captured were slaughtered on the spot to prevent the insurgents getting them , and by April of 1897 the stock was practically extinct . The Spanish officers during 8 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
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the stock was practically extinct . The Spanish officers during this time had been appropriating the ration money , and when the country was used up the sufferings of the soldiers commenced . Those doing detached duty in the wooden ...
the stock was practically extinct . The Spanish officers during this time had been appropriating the ration money , and when the country was used up the sufferings of the soldiers commenced . Those doing detached duty in the wooden ...
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... officer . Refusing to live under his protection , she was delivered up a prisoner and exiled . Castillo fell next , and he had but five with him when he was ambushed and macheted by the Guardia Civil right in the out- skirts of Havana ...
... officer . Refusing to live under his protection , she was delivered up a prisoner and exiled . Castillo fell next , and he had but five with him when he was ambushed and macheted by the Guardia Civil right in the out- skirts of Havana ...
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... officer , however , is not dashing ; he is in the war for money , and the glory , as he well knows , goes to the highest bidder for the cross or decoration . Now his money - making chances are gone perhaps he will make a better fighter ...
... officer , however , is not dashing ; he is in the war for money , and the glory , as he well knows , goes to the highest bidder for the cross or decoration . Now his money - making chances are gone perhaps he will make a better fighter ...
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Page 239 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 632 - ... requiring such as shall be satisfied with a general confession not to be offended with them that do use, to their further satisfying, the auricular and secret confession to the priest ; nor those also which think needful or convenient, for the quietness of their own consciences, particularly to open their sins to the priest, to be offended with them that are satisfied with their humble confession to God, and the general confession to the Church.
Page 224 - AND Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Page 21 - You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. The great social forces which move onwards in their might and majesty, and which the tumult of our debates does not for a moment impede or disturb...
Page 21 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 224 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 315 - For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored ; (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians...
Page 373 - Briid's bed; and then the mistress and servants cry three times, ' Briid is come, Briid is welcome* This they do just before going to bed, and when they rise in the morning they look among the ashes, expecting to see the impression of Briid's club there ; which if they do, they reckon it a true presage of a good crop and prosperous year, and the contrary they take as an ill omen.
Page 345 - I shall be glad to be in a position to communicate to Her Majesty's Government a definite assurance that China will never alienate any territory in the provinces adjoining the Yang-tsze to any other Power, whether under lease, mortgage, or any other designation.
Page 651 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.