The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... remains so . Yet bigness has its penalties ; ' Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat omnes Infra se positos . ' This was not true of him at school with his Masters or his boys - far from it - nor yet with his distinguished sons at home ...
... remains so . Yet bigness has its penalties ; ' Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat omnes Infra se positos . ' This was not true of him at school with his Masters or his boys - far from it - nor yet with his distinguished sons at home ...
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... remains the question of Austria . However smoothly other problems of Eastern Europe may be settled , the final collapse of the new Austria would shake the very foundations of the peace settlement in this region ; so too would a ...
... remains the question of Austria . However smoothly other problems of Eastern Europe may be settled , the final collapse of the new Austria would shake the very foundations of the peace settlement in this region ; so too would a ...
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... remains impenitent . Indeed , it appears to be one of his most cherished memories of the Conference that , in this matter , the commission agreed with him , ' après une dizaine de séances de quatre heures chacune , ' in which he was ...
... remains impenitent . Indeed , it appears to be one of his most cherished memories of the Conference that , in this matter , the commission agreed with him , ' après une dizaine de séances de quatre heures chacune , ' in which he was ...
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... remains , still fairly extensive , of an old Persian fort ; and on its exceedingly steep slopes and among the towers and bastions of the fort is an ingeniously planned botanical garden , the just pride of modern Tiflis . On a clear day ...
... remains , still fairly extensive , of an old Persian fort ; and on its exceedingly steep slopes and among the towers and bastions of the fort is an ingeniously planned botanical garden , the just pride of modern Tiflis . On a clear day ...
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... remains of the ancient pre - Armenian kingdom of Van , and in part , no doubt , assimilated the civilisation of its people , who called themselves Khaldians , and have left inscriptions written in Assyrian cuneiform . They emerge into ...
... remains of the ancient pre - Armenian kingdom of Van , and in part , no doubt , assimilated the civilisation of its people , who called themselves Khaldians , and have left inscriptions written in Assyrian cuneiform . They emerge into ...
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Page 58 - The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David ; he will not turn from it ; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
Page 110 - China; b. any such monopoly or preference as would deprive the nationals of any other Power of the right of undertaking any legitimate trade or industry in China, or of participating with the Chinese Government, or with any local authority, in any category of public enterprise, or which by reason of its scope, duration or geographical extent is calculated to frustrate the practical application of the principle of equal opportunity.
Page 108 - To respect the sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China; 2. To provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and stable government; 3.
Page 238 - promote to the utmost the material and moral well-being and social progress of the inhabitants of the territory.
Page 227 - ... writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till after a myriad metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus.
Page 109 - To use their influence for the purpose of effectually establishing and maintaining the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations throughout the territory of China ; and '4.
Page 110 - The Powers represented in this Conference, considering it desirable that there should hereafter be full publicity with respect to all matters affecting the political and other international obligations of China and of the several Powers in relation to China, are agreed as follows : I.
Page 229 - Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.
Page 231 - Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.
Page 231 - Five fathoms out there. Full fathom five thy father lies. At one he said. Found drowned. High water at Dublin bar. Driving before it a loose drift of rubble, fanshoals of fishes, silly shells. A corpse rising salt white from the undertow, bobbing landward, a pace a pace a porpoise.