The Quarterly Review, Volumen241John Murray, 1924 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 75
Página 3
... matter . Thus far the Italian Government were acting with right on their side . But , on the other hand , their refusal to admit the competence of the League to express an opinion upon the legitimacy of the occupa- tion of Corfu , or to ...
... matter . Thus far the Italian Government were acting with right on their side . But , on the other hand , their refusal to admit the competence of the League to express an opinion upon the legitimacy of the occupa- tion of Corfu , or to ...
Página 9
... matters . Mr Thorburn's new book on this particularly interest- ing branch of study has the excellence of all his work , which even in ornithological circles where criticism can be a little too keen at times is considered above ...
... matters . Mr Thorburn's new book on this particularly interest- ing branch of study has the excellence of all his work , which even in ornithological circles where criticism can be a little too keen at times is considered above ...
Página 11
... matter , particularly from thick oaks . Once on the ground , even if screened by brushwood , an old cock would run fast and far at the sound of a footstep , but high amongst the thick foliage where no eye could detect him , or no dog ...
... matter , particularly from thick oaks . Once on the ground , even if screened by brushwood , an old cock would run fast and far at the sound of a footstep , but high amongst the thick foliage where no eye could detect him , or no dog ...
Página 13
... matter of seconds only , but when I looked again the chicks were nowhere to be seen . There was a faint rustling on all sides , curiously difficult to locate , a suggestion of movement under the dry fronds where the wind - ripples ...
... matter of seconds only , but when I looked again the chicks were nowhere to be seen . There was a faint rustling on all sides , curiously difficult to locate , a suggestion of movement under the dry fronds where the wind - ripples ...
Página 15
... matter ended . But not so where ' professional sportsmen ' of my informant's type were concerned . His business was to get game for market by fair means or foul , and failing the gun , there were other ways . According to this man ...
... matter ended . But not so where ' professional sportsmen ' of my informant's type were concerned . His business was to get game for market by fair means or foul , and failing the gun , there were other ways . According to this man ...
Contenido
9 | |
10 | |
11 | |
12 | |
13 | |
23 | |
24 | |
37 | |
53 | |
74 | |
76 | |
84 | |
90 | |
93 | |
99 | |
107 | |
123 | |
124 | |
136 | |
152 | |
156 | |
164 | |
246 | |
262 | |
276 | |
291 | |
311 | |
316 | |
323 | |
333 | |
339 | |
356 | |
374 | |
381 | |
385 | |
399 | |
404 | |
420 | |
453 | |
456 | |
457 | |
460 | |
461 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admirable Arnold atom battle fleet battle-cruisers bees belief birds Britain British South Africa Byron called century comedy comic Conservative constituencies Court criticism Crown Dalmatia diplomatic doubt earthquake East Hendred effect electrons element Empire enemy England English Envoy Europe fact feel Fiume Foreign Policy France French George German Government Grand Fleet hive honey hope Horn Reefs human humour interest Italian Italy Jellicoe Julian Corbett kind knowledge Labour land laugh League of Nations less Liberal literary literature LoBengula Lord Morley Manor Matabele Matthew Arnold ment mind Molière moral nature never nucleus party peace perhaps poetry political position present probable question Rapallo Treaty reason recognise Rhodesia Russia Saint-Saphorin seats seems seismograph ships South Africa South Africa Company Southern Rhodesia spirit territory theology things tion to-day torpedo trade Treaty troops Venetian Venice village votes whole writers Yugoslav
Pasajes populares
Página 262 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Página 288 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full...
Página 263 - Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!
Página 347 - A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il ya plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.
Página 284 - Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...
Página 362 - The nobler a soul is, the more objects of compassion it hath.
Página 362 - Of that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love...
Página 280 - Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from Day's garish eye, While the bee with honeyed thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep...
Página 279 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs...
Página 320 - Of the attempts hitherto made to define or explain an element, none satisfy the demands of the human intellect. The text books tell us that an element is ' a body which has not been decomposed ;' that it is ' a something to which we can add, but from which we can take nothing,' or ' a body which increases in weight with every chemical change.