MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 24Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1871 |
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... army , that we could not put together a hundred thousand men . We could not put together forty thousand men . We had no powder , or we had the wrong kind of powder . We had no rifles , or we had the wrong kind of rifles . Our soldiers ...
... army , that we could not put together a hundred thousand men . We could not put together forty thousand men . We had no powder , or we had the wrong kind of powder . We had no rifles , or we had the wrong kind of rifles . Our soldiers ...
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... army reform , and so far the cry is not an unreason- able one . But two different notions of army reform split off from one another at the first moment . One notion of army reform is to spend more money on such an army as we have now ...
... army reform , and so far the cry is not an unreason- able one . But two different notions of army reform split off from one another at the first moment . One notion of army reform is to spend more money on such an army as we have now ...
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... army , feelings which I certainly do not believe to be wholly confined to myself ? There are no doubt military families and military circles in which everything to do with the army seems intelligible and natural . But outside those ...
... army , feelings which I certainly do not believe to be wholly confined to myself ? There are no doubt military families and military circles in which everything to do with the army seems intelligible and natural . But outside those ...
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... army . The outsider asks for explanation , and he is told that the sham colonel is in each case an old and deserving officer , who in this form receives the reward of his service . The outsider perhaps murmurs that he has no objec- tion ...
... army . The outsider asks for explanation , and he is told that the sham colonel is in each case an old and deserving officer , who in this form receives the reward of his service . The outsider perhaps murmurs that he has no objec- tion ...
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... army alone that offices are openly bought and sold ; it is in the army alone that men leap over the heads of others avowedly because they are richer ; it is in the army alone that men are 66 ' bought out and receive " bonuses " to ...
... army alone that offices are openly bought and sold ; it is in the army alone that men leap over the heads of others avowedly because they are richer ; it is in the army alone that men are 66 ' bought out and receive " bonuses " to ...
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Page 50 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 277 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 194 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 222 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Page 150 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit...
Page 45 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 41 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 351 - I cannot read them now. — 0 gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 45 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Page 278 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.