The Quarterly Review, Volume 184William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1896 |
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... appear irredeemable . Few novelists , prior to 1852 , had sought to depict the British officer as a scholar . When ... appears in a uni- formly wise and calm judgment of the operations and of the causes which nearly led to disaster ...
... appear irredeemable . Few novelists , prior to 1852 , had sought to depict the British officer as a scholar . When ... appears in a uni- formly wise and calm judgment of the operations and of the causes which nearly led to disaster ...
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... appears to have been overcome only by the wise insistance of Mr. Card- well , backed by the strong support of the press . Until 1877 , Hamley remained at the Staff College , where he initiated many valuable changes , infused a practical ...
... appears to have been overcome only by the wise insistance of Mr. Card- well , backed by the strong support of the press . Until 1877 , Hamley remained at the Staff College , where he initiated many valuable changes , infused a practical ...
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... appear to have been communicated . Hamley , to whom all the important historical instances of night attacks were familiar , seems to have had doubts as to the possible existence of outworks which might most materially affect the ...
... appear to have been communicated . Hamley , to whom all the important historical instances of night attacks were familiar , seems to have had doubts as to the possible existence of outworks which might most materially affect the ...
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... appear to have been in no sense surprised , and imme- diately after the sounding of the alarm a sheet of fire blazed forth from the trenches . Carrying out to the letter the wishes of the Commander - in - Chief , the Highland Brigade ...
... appear to have been in no sense surprised , and imme- diately after the sounding of the alarm a sheet of fire blazed forth from the trenches . Carrying out to the letter the wishes of the Commander - in - Chief , the Highland Brigade ...
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... appear not to have actually reached the trenches till about a quarter of an hour after the Highlanders . † From unforeseen circumstances , it resulted that Hamley's command bore the brunt of the fighting at Tel - el - Kebir , and ...
... appear not to have actually reached the trenches till about a quarter of an hour after the Highlanders . † From unforeseen circumstances , it resulted that Hamley's command bore the brunt of the fighting at Tel - el - Kebir , and ...
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Page 306 - How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
Page 305 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival...
Page 341 - Parliament that the King our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted and reputed the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England...
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Page 410 - THESE things are but toys to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Page 417 - LIS, the point upwards: next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Page 406 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 168 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not; but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile: all else deep snow and ice...
Page 436 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Page 316 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.