The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 219A. Constable, 1914 |
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... cost to India for a century past . The Indian Moslem does not ask for the surrender of any British interests ; he simply points out that these interests are in accord with Moslem sentiment and wishes . Yet his incursion into ...
... cost to India for a century past . The Indian Moslem does not ask for the surrender of any British interests ; he simply points out that these interests are in accord with Moslem sentiment and wishes . Yet his incursion into ...
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... cost . Consequently , all those doctrines that demand action as the essential condition of their existence were suppressed : patriotism , notably , was looked upon in France , during the ' nineties , as the most abject and most pitiable ...
... cost . Consequently , all those doctrines that demand action as the essential condition of their existence were suppressed : patriotism , notably , was looked upon in France , during the ' nineties , as the most abject and most pitiable ...
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... cost . Only last year the stereotyped plates were worn out , and the author was bemoaning the weariness of having to correct the proofs over again - surely a rare sorrow for a writer to have to undergo ! This comprehensive work analyses ...
... cost . Only last year the stereotyped plates were worn out , and the author was bemoaning the weariness of having to correct the proofs over again - surely a rare sorrow for a writer to have to undergo ! This comprehensive work analyses ...
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... cost of extirpating heresy under Diocletian would have been excessive . More agreed with Burke that Circumstances ( which some gentlemen pass for nothing ) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and ...
... cost of extirpating heresy under Diocletian would have been excessive . More agreed with Burke that Circumstances ( which some gentlemen pass for nothing ) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and ...
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... cost . It would seem , however , that M. Nijinski is falling into one of the many pitfalls that have already received the post- impressionist artist . He is trying to express in one medium things that belong to another branch of art ...
... cost . It would seem , however , that M. Nijinski is falling into one of the many pitfalls that have already received the post- impressionist artist . He is trying to express in one medium things that belong to another branch of art ...
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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!