The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 244A. Constable, 1926 |
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... foreign Alliance can be obtained and a proper confederation by which internal peace and union may be secured .... Our enemies press us with war , threaten us with danger and slavery . And this , not with her single force , but with the ...
... foreign Alliance can be obtained and a proper confederation by which internal peace and union may be secured .... Our enemies press us with war , threaten us with danger and slavery . And this , not with her single force , but with the ...
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... foreign policy for the British Common- wealth it should conform to certain definite principles ; that serious commitments in Europe should be avoided as far as possible ; that there would be sympathetic co - operation in inter- national ...
... foreign policy for the British Common- wealth it should conform to certain definite principles ; that serious commitments in Europe should be avoided as far as possible ; that there would be sympathetic co - operation in inter- national ...
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... foreign countries are conducted . During the past year , Australia and New Zealand have made a praiseworthy effort to remedy the deficiencies of the situation by appointing competent diplomatic representatives , who are attached to the ...
... foreign countries are conducted . During the past year , Australia and New Zealand have made a praiseworthy effort to remedy the deficiencies of the situation by appointing competent diplomatic representatives , who are attached to the ...
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... foreign policy without any serious consideration of their palatability to the Dominions , and the Dominions made no effort to assert themselves and force a change in policies which they disliked . Sometimes they were invited to ...
... foreign policy without any serious consideration of their palatability to the Dominions , and the Dominions made no effort to assert themselves and force a change in policies which they disliked . Sometimes they were invited to ...
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... foreign policy , apparently had the desired effect : hasty announcement was made that the Imperial Conference had been called for October , and word arrived from New Zealand that the Coates Government intended to hold its hand . As a ...
... foreign policy , apparently had the desired effect : hasty announcement was made that the Imperial Conference had been called for October , and word arrived from New Zealand that the Coates Government intended to hold its hand . As a ...
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Página 123 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move...
Página 127 - Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings...
Página 126 - It is six miles to the top; the road runs winding up it, commonly not six feet broad; on one hand is the rock, with woods of pine-trees hanging over head; on the other, a monstrous precipice, almost perpendicular, at the bottom of which rolls a torrent, that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have fallen from on high, and sometimes precipitating itself down vast descents with a noise like thunder, which is still made greater by the echo from the mountains on each side, concurs to...
Página 44 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Página 123 - Pleasures, Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing, now retreating, Now in circling troops they meet : To brisk notes in cadence beating, Glance their many-twinkling feet.
Página 181 - To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in anything else.
Página 125 - Come, let us sing; and directly began herself: From singing we insensibly fell to dancing, and singing in...
Página 230 - With benevolent intentions he murdered Afzal Khan for the good of others. If thieves enter our house and we have not sufficient strength to drive them out, we should without hesitation shut them up and burn them alive.
Página 132 - Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
Página 126 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.