The Edinburgh Review, Volume 231A. and C. Black, 1920 |
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... France and the Low Countries may serve as sufficient examples . The real meaning ' of the present turmoil is that we are witnessing the birth pangs ' of a new order , ' observes a leader - writer in the Times , and continues : There is ...
... France and the Low Countries may serve as sufficient examples . The real meaning ' of the present turmoil is that we are witnessing the birth pangs ' of a new order , ' observes a leader - writer in the Times , and continues : There is ...
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... - kowski , and Anatole France - to mention three writers of various types and different nationalities have acknowledged the influence of Petronius . ERNLE . SAMUEL BUTLER 1. Samuel Butler , Author of ' Erewhon 44 Jan. LATIN PROSE FICTION.
... - kowski , and Anatole France - to mention three writers of various types and different nationalities have acknowledged the influence of Petronius . ERNLE . SAMUEL BUTLER 1. Samuel Butler , Author of ' Erewhon 44 Jan. LATIN PROSE FICTION.
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... pleasure that , after considerable pressure , he had succeeded in causing the same means to be adopted for securing the health of English prisoners in France as had been practised 86 Jan. AN 18TH - CENTURY CLERIC - SCIENTIST.
... pleasure that , after considerable pressure , he had succeeded in causing the same means to be adopted for securing the health of English prisoners in France as had been practised 86 Jan. AN 18TH - CENTURY CLERIC - SCIENTIST.
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... France , were very healthy all the time , when they were very sick in all the ships of that expedition . ' The testimony of Henry Ellis , dating from Bristol in 1753 , is to the same effect : - ' The ventilators of your invention which ...
... France , were very healthy all the time , when they were very sick in all the ships of that expedition . ' The testimony of Henry Ellis , dating from Bristol in 1753 , is to the same effect : - ' The ventilators of your invention which ...
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... France for more British troops , and their place in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force had to be taken by native infantry from India and Indian cavalry from France . On 19th September General Allenby began the campaign which , in his own ...
... France for more British troops , and their place in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force had to be taken by native infantry from India and Indian cavalry from France . On 19th September General Allenby began the campaign which , in his own ...
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Página 240 - Should any member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13, or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other members of the League...
Página 83 - I see daily ; wretches are often brought before me, charged with theft and robbery, whom I am forced to confine before they are in a condition to be examined ; and when they have afterwards become sober, I have plainly perceived, from the state of the case, that the Gin alone was the cause of the transgression, and have been sometimes sorry that I was obliged to commit them to prison.
Página 96 - Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly, where it is the chief passion, it doth not give way to vulgar cares and views ; nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life ; active, perhaps, to pursue, but not so fit to weigh and revise. He that would make a real progress in knowledge must dedicate his age as well as youth, the later growth as well as first fruits, at the altar of Truth.
Página 10 - Man, man is the great instrument that produces wealth. The natural difference between Campania and Spitzbergen is trifling when compared with the difference between a country inhabited by men full of bodily and mental vigor, and a country inhabited by men sunk in bodily and mental decrepitude.
Página 21 - Socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, endeavor to destroy private property, and maintain that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that, by thus transferring property from private persons to the community, the present evil state of things will be set to rights, because each citizen will then have his equal share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their proposals are so clearly futile for...
Página 60 - That little lame lady's face is with me still; Never a day but what, on every one, She dwells with me as dwell she ever will. She said she wished I knew not wrong from right; It was not that; I knew, and would have chosen Wrong if I could, but, in my own despite, Power to choose wrong in my chilled veins was frozen. 'Tis said that if a woman woo, no man Should leave her till she have prevailed; and, true, A man will yield for pity if he can, But if the flesh rebels what can he do ? I could not; hence...
Página 83 - I have great reason to think is the principal sustenance (if it may be so called) of more than an hundred thousand people in this metropolis. Many of these wretches there are who swallow pints of this poison within the twenty-four hours ; the dreadful effects of which I have the misfortune every day to see, and to smell too.
Página 25 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but...