The Contemporary Review, Volume 43A. Strahan, 1883 |
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... least , to a greatly dis- ordered nervous system . Regarding you as representing Americans at large , I feel that the occasion is one on which arrears of thanks are due . I ought to begin with the time , some two - and - twenty years ...
... least , to a greatly dis- ordered nervous system . Regarding you as representing Americans at large , I feel that the occasion is one on which arrears of thanks are due . I ought to begin with the time , some two - and - twenty years ...
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... least , as a man of scholarship and intellectual tastes , and that he received many Liberal votes in the belief that he was less widely removed from Liberal ideas than another Conservative candidate . This would seem to have been the ...
... least , as a man of scholarship and intellectual tastes , and that he received many Liberal votes in the belief that he was less widely removed from Liberal ideas than another Conservative candidate . This would seem to have been the ...
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least did not regret , the tradition that an University seat should be a seat for life . It sounded degrading when a proposer of Mr. Gladstone stooped to appeal to the doctrine , " ut semel electus semper eligatur . " But be that rule ...
least did not regret , the tradition that an University seat should be a seat for life . It sounded degrading when a proposer of Mr. Gladstone stooped to appeal to the doctrine , " ut semel electus semper eligatur . " But be that rule ...
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... least a poll which should show that the Conservative majority was largely diminished . Instead of this , both at Oxford in 1878 and at Cambridge in 1882 the Conservative candidate comes in by a majority which is simply overwhelming . It ...
... least a poll which should show that the Conservative majority was largely diminished . Instead of this , both at Oxford in 1878 and at Cambridge in 1882 the Conservative candidate comes in by a majority which is simply overwhelming . It ...
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... least favour . Even in the most Liberal part of the kingdom , the University constituencies are the least Liberal part of the electoral body . The facts are clear ; we must grapple with them as we can . There is something in education ...
... least favour . Even in the most Liberal part of the kingdom , the University constituencies are the least Liberal part of the electoral body . The facts are clear ; we must grapple with them as we can . There is something in education ...
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Page 48 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 530 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax: it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Page 44 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 516 - And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. 13 AND when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Page 790 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity duly to discharge.
Page 570 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 786 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Page 874 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it : from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Page 482 - Let him that stole steal no more : but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 487 - Not so shall it be among you : but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.