The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 1Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1872 |
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... means large . It will be necessary , therefore , to exercise a careful discretion in the selection of papers for publication . No article can be accepted unless it be of reasonable length , and possessed of some dis- tinctive claim upon ...
... means large . It will be necessary , therefore , to exercise a careful discretion in the selection of papers for publication . No article can be accepted unless it be of reasonable length , and possessed of some dis- tinctive claim upon ...
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... means negatively con- travened the treaty . More than a quarter of a century ago , the British Government would have thrown open to the Americans all the Bays over six miles wide , if it had not been for the assurance of Lord Falkland ...
... means negatively con- travened the treaty . More than a quarter of a century ago , the British Government would have thrown open to the Americans all the Bays over six miles wide , if it had not been for the assurance of Lord Falkland ...
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... means of repurchasing the conditions of the old Re- ciprocity Treaty , or anything like them , it would have been a blind self delusion to rely on the fisheries . We do not forget that , in 1851 , the Presi- dent declined to negotiate ...
... means of repurchasing the conditions of the old Re- ciprocity Treaty , or anything like them , it would have been a blind self delusion to rely on the fisheries . We do not forget that , in 1851 , the Presi- dent declined to negotiate ...
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... means of retaliating assumed wrongs , in case they should be committed , we fear he did so for the purpose he attrib- uted to the Dominion ; to put pressure on this Government for political purposes . Whether that helped him or not , he ...
... means of retaliating assumed wrongs , in case they should be committed , we fear he did so for the purpose he attrib- uted to the Dominion ; to put pressure on this Government for political purposes . Whether that helped him or not , he ...
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... means of settlement has been resorted to . There had long since ceased to be any hope in diplomacy . A reference to some third party was indispensable ; and there is no reason why the Emperor of Germany should not make a just award ...
... means of settlement has been resorted to . There had long since ceased to be any hope in diplomacy . A reference to some third party was indispensable ; and there is no reason why the Emperor of Germany should not make a just award ...
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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 279 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie ; Peace in her vineyard — yes!
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 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 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 226 - Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Page 337 - Received more than all, it loved more than ever, Where none wanted but it, could belong to the giver...
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 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.