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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... communication with him with a view to publishing his book . They soon became intimate friends , and the publisher rendered valuable assistance to the author in the preparation of all his subsequent volumes . When Schliemann came home ...
... communication with him with a view to publishing his book . They soon became intimate friends , and the publisher rendered valuable assistance to the author in the preparation of all his subsequent volumes . When Schliemann came home ...
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... long had a desire to found a really good weekly literary organ ; and in 1869 he was brought into communication with Dr Charles Appleton , Fellow of St John's College , Oxford JOHN MURRAY III 21 An English Prison from Within •
... long had a desire to found a really good weekly literary organ ; and in 1869 he was brought into communication with Dr Charles Appleton , Fellow of St John's College , Oxford JOHN MURRAY III 21 An English Prison from Within •
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... communication with this department . It is more than an ordinary banking house . In war time it is , as Herr Riesser remarks , a Kriegsbank in a very special sense . It would astonish the average Englishman , in reading the works of the ...
... communication with this department . It is more than an ordinary banking house . In war time it is , as Herr Riesser remarks , a Kriegsbank in a very special sense . It would astonish the average Englishman , in reading the works of the ...
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... communication between the London branch and the Deutsche Orientbank , really an affiliation of the Dresdner . They pointed to an exceptionally active interest in Egyptian concerns . The Orientbank had long devoted attention to this ...
... communication between the London branch and the Deutsche Orientbank , really an affiliation of the Dresdner . They pointed to an exceptionally active interest in Egyptian concerns . The Orientbank had long devoted attention to this ...
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... communication , the Red Guards obtained posession of South Finland . In the meantime Mannerheim had been at work ... communications with the east of Finland by seizing the railway through the centre of the country , and with Sweden by ...
... communication , the Red Guards obtained posession of South Finland . In the meantime Mannerheim had been at work ... communications with the east of Finland by seizing the railway through the centre of the country , and with Sweden by ...
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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...
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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...
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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.