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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... parties savantes de la guerre . ' Such was the just comment of General Foy in the first quarter of the century ; and until the publication of Napier's brilliant History , the reproach remained . English writers had been content with ...
... parties savantes de la guerre . ' Such was the just comment of General Foy in the first quarter of the century ; and until the publication of Napier's brilliant History , the reproach remained . English writers had been content with ...
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... party of Cavalry for orderly duties . The operation to be undertaken was in some respects unique . The Egyptian Engineers were capable constructors of parapets ; but ideas of a higher order were altogether wanting . They had thrown up a ...
... party of Cavalry for orderly duties . The operation to be undertaken was in some respects unique . The Egyptian Engineers were capable constructors of parapets ; but ideas of a higher order were altogether wanting . They had thrown up a ...
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... party leaders in connexion with a matter so distinct from mere politics as the Volunteer grant . 6 The many pre - occupations of parliamentary life interrupted Hamley's literary pursuits ; but he found time for several reviews , such as ...
... party leaders in connexion with a matter so distinct from mere politics as the Volunteer grant . 6 The many pre - occupations of parliamentary life interrupted Hamley's literary pursuits ; but he found time for several reviews , such as ...
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... party in the State , has of late years been hustled about by his political leaders in a way that has been extremely dis- concerting to his self - respect . In his resentment , he has had the effrontery to think for himself . The ...
... party in the State , has of late years been hustled about by his political leaders in a way that has been extremely dis- concerting to his self - respect . In his resentment , he has had the effrontery to think for himself . The ...
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... party took the matter in hand , the voluntary schools might be placed in jeopardy , and to the desire of others to show their constituents that the return of a Conservative Party would not prohibit the continuance of the system of ...
... party took the matter in hand , the voluntary schools might be placed in jeopardy , and to the desire of others to show their constituents that the return of a Conservative Party would not prohibit the continuance of the system of ...
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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...
Page 426 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
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.