The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 219A. Constable, 1914 |
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... English university , assured me that when the news of the battle of Lulu Burgas arrived he felt that the only course for him was to commit suicide . ' ' A Correspondent in India ' contrasts the position now with that of 1897 and admits ...
... English university , assured me that when the news of the battle of Lulu Burgas arrived he felt that the only course for him was to commit suicide . ' ' A Correspondent in India ' contrasts the position now with that of 1897 and admits ...
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... English - speaking race are subjects of King Shakespeare , and in the same way all Mussulmans are subjects of the ' Arabian Nights . ' They share the glorious heritage not only of the Koran ( which they are taught in early childhood to ...
... English - speaking race are subjects of King Shakespeare , and in the same way all Mussulmans are subjects of the ' Arabian Nights . ' They share the glorious heritage not only of the Koran ( which they are taught in early childhood to ...
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... English opinion on Moslem affairs without guidance from the former . Hence , while I am most anxious to see a reconstruction of the London League I feel it is essential that this should be based upon co - operation with the residents ...
... English opinion on Moslem affairs without guidance from the former . Hence , while I am most anxious to see a reconstruction of the London League I feel it is essential that this should be based upon co - operation with the residents ...
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... English life at its best . After all , the great work of the British people in India has been that of broadening and expanding Indian ideals , and it is clearly advantageous that Indians studying outside their own country should come ...
... English life at its best . After all , the great work of the British people in India has been that of broadening and expanding Indian ideals , and it is clearly advantageous that Indians studying outside their own country should come ...
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... English readers as Henri Beyle . Most of us are , no doubt , fairly familiar with his pseudonym of ' Stendhal ' ; some of us have read ' Le Rouge et Le Noir ' and La Chartreuse de Parme ' ; but how many of us have any further knowledge ...
... English readers as Henri Beyle . Most of us are , no doubt , fairly familiar with his pseudonym of ' Stendhal ' ; some of us have read ' Le Rouge et Le Noir ' and La Chartreuse de Parme ' ; but how many of us have any further knowledge ...
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Page 100 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 228 - States which have undergone a change of government due to revolution, the results of which threaten other States, ipso facto, cease to be members of the European Alliance, and remain excluded from it until their situation gives guarantees for legal order and stability. If, owing to such alterations, immediate danger threatens other States, the Powers bind themselves, by peaceful means, or if need be by arms, to bring back the guilty State into the bosom of the Great Alliance.
Page 228 - The people of the United States have a vital interest in the cause of popular self-government.
Page 226 - It cannot be too often and too emphatically asserted that the United States has not the slightest desire for territorial aggrandizement at the expense of any of its southern neighbors, and will not treat the Monroe Doctrine as an excuse for such aggrandizement on its part.
Page 330 - C'est que la Liberté n'est pas une comtesse Du noble faubourg Saint-Germain, Une femme qu'un cri fait tomber en faiblesse, Qui met du blanc et du carmin : C'est une forte femme aux puissantes mamelles, A la voix rauque, aux durs appas...
Page 493 - God is our guide ! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom, We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom : And hark ! we raise from sea to sea, The sacred watchword, Liberty.
Page 223 - The acquisition of San Domingo is an adherence to the " Monroe doctrine;" it is a measure of national protection ; it is asserting our just claim to a controlling influence over the great commercial traffic soon to flow from west to east, by way of the Isthmus of Darien...
Page 439 - That all further extension of territory or assumption of government, or new treaties offering any protection to native tribes, would be inexpedient...
Page 44 - Nous avouerons que notre héros était fort peu héros en ce moment. Toutefois, la peur ne venait chez lui qu'en seconde ligne; il était surtout scandalisé de ce bruit qui lui faisait mal aux oreilles.
Page 422 - I heard them both, and oh! I heard The song of every singing bird That sings beneath the sky, And with the song of lark and wren The song of mountains, moths and men And seas and rainbows vie!