The Quarterly Review, Volumen241John Murray, 1924 |
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Página 81
... officers carry- ing on their work among the natives in their remote and lonely posts prouder of their countrymen than before . So it came about that in the Great War of 1914-18 , Rhodesia , of all the dependencies of the British Empire ...
... officers carry- ing on their work among the natives in their remote and lonely posts prouder of their countrymen than before . So it came about that in the Great War of 1914-18 , Rhodesia , of all the dependencies of the British Empire ...
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... officers , and the German , not the British power had been paramount in South Central Africa ? To what perils might not the South African harbours , and with them the deep sea route to the East , have been exposed , indispensable as ...
... officers , and the German , not the British power had been paramount in South Central Africa ? To what perils might not the South African harbours , and with them the deep sea route to the East , have been exposed , indispensable as ...
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... officers , abolished domestic servitude , a long - established and , to them , a perfectly respectable institution . Throughout Rhodesia the efforts of the missionary have been consistently helped and encouraged ; 84 THE BRITISH SOUTH ...
... officers , abolished domestic servitude , a long - established and , to them , a perfectly respectable institution . Throughout Rhodesia the efforts of the missionary have been consistently helped and encouraged ; 84 THE BRITISH SOUTH ...
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... officers , both in the technical aspects of the account and in the pre- paration of the detailed and admirably clear plans which accompany it . Altogether we may take it that here we have presented , for the first time , all the ...
... officers , both in the technical aspects of the account and in the pre- paration of the detailed and admirably clear plans which accompany it . Altogether we may take it that here we have presented , for the first time , all the ...
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... Officers and Men ' in a series of short extracts from reports and diaries , or in accounts written with events fresh ... officer , one of the few survivors of H.M.S. ' Queen Mary , ' gives a simple but arresting story of the last scenes ...
... Officers and Men ' in a series of short extracts from reports and diaries , or in accounts written with events fresh ... officer , one of the few survivors of H.M.S. ' Queen Mary , ' gives a simple but arresting story of the last scenes ...
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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.