The Quarterly Review, Volume 231William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1919 - English literature |
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... carrying his gold - banded Consular cap , as men used to carry their opera hats , to the drawing - room after dinner . His portrait , painted by Henry Phillips for my father , now hangs in my dining - room . One day Livingstone , on ...
... carrying his gold - banded Consular cap , as men used to carry their opera hats , to the drawing - room after dinner . His portrait , painted by Henry Phillips for my father , now hangs in my dining - room . One day Livingstone , on ...
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... carried fainting out of the room . Soon after the death of the Prince Consort , it was decided to bring out a volume of his speeches , which Queen Victoria was anxious to see published by the first anniversary of his death . The firm to ...
... carried fainting out of the room . Soon after the death of the Prince Consort , it was decided to bring out a volume of his speeches , which Queen Victoria was anxious to see published by the first anniversary of his death . The firm to ...
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... carried on a large number of literary enterprises without intermission during those years . In order to show how strong was the mutual regard of the two men I give an extract from a letter written to me by Sir William on my father's ...
... carried on a large number of literary enterprises without intermission during those years . In order to show how strong was the mutual regard of the two men I give an extract from a letter written to me by Sir William on my father's ...
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... carry out the changes which they knew to be necessary . The hour of reform only arrived when the logic of the stricken field had revealed the need of building from the depths , and when men of ability and determination received the more ...
... carry out the changes which they knew to be necessary . The hour of reform only arrived when the logic of the stricken field had revealed the need of building from the depths , and when men of ability and determination received the more ...
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... carry out more than a fraction of the Nassau Programme ; but the emancipation of the peasants and the grant of municipal self - govern- ment stand out as everlasting monuments of his rule . Emancipation owed as much to Schön , who had ...
... carry out more than a fraction of the Nassau Programme ; but the emancipation of the peasants and the grant of municipal self - govern- ment stand out as everlasting monuments of his rule . Emancipation owed as much to Schön , who had ...
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Page 447 - The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And...
Page 22 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 129 - ... country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him. His position takes the imagination of the country. He is the representative of no constituency, but of the whole people. When he speaks in his true character, he speaks for no special interest. If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when its President is of such insight and calibre.
Page 184 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international cove- 25 nants.
Page 129 - His is the only national voice in affairs. Let him once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.
Page 200 - Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: " wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...
Page 133 - I have sought this opportunity to address you because I thought that I owed it to you, as the council associated with me in the final determination of our international obligations...
Page 129 - He is expected by the nation to be the leader of his party as well as the chief executive officer of the Government, and the country will take no excuses from him. He must play the part and play it successfully, or lose the country's confidence. He must be Prime Minister, as much concerned with the guidance of legislation as with the just and orderly execution of law; and he is the spokesman of the nation in everything, even the most momentous and most delicate dealings of the Government with foreign...
Page 65 - Apart from the results of its continued excessive use, the main effects of alcohol that have any real significance are due to its action on the nervous system.
Page 129 - The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution, — it will be from no lack of constitutional powers on its part, but only because the President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion.