The Quarterly Review, Volumen236William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1921 |
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... living assets can only be preserved with their own consent and on their own conditions . There remains to be considered , therefore , the one condition essential to the continued existence of the Commonwealth as a British community on ...
... living assets can only be preserved with their own consent and on their own conditions . There remains to be considered , therefore , the one condition essential to the continued existence of the Commonwealth as a British community on ...
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... living at home in the circle of his Cambridge intimates , and so had little occasion to put his soul on paper . Nevertheless there remain a few precious traces of the spiritual struggle by which he reached the bracing , moralising ...
... living at home in the circle of his Cambridge intimates , and so had little occasion to put his soul on paper . Nevertheless there remain a few precious traces of the spiritual struggle by which he reached the bracing , moralising ...
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... living being is not merely an automatic victim of natural selection . 6 As But what is the difference it makes ? Simply this , that it is not merely selected , but itself selects . It is active and reacts upon external stimulation , in ...
... living being is not merely an automatic victim of natural selection . 6 As But what is the difference it makes ? Simply this , that it is not merely selected , but itself selects . It is active and reacts upon external stimulation , in ...
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... living account of the revolutionary leaders and groups , and of the movement as a whole . A German , Mr M. Beer , followed close upon the heels of the Frenchman , with his well - known , very painstaking , and very narrow- minded ...
... living account of the revolutionary leaders and groups , and of the movement as a whole . A German , Mr M. Beer , followed close upon the heels of the Frenchman , with his well - known , very painstaking , and very narrow- minded ...
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... living thing the fear of a renewal of the French Revolu- tion was in those days . The years of Jacobinism and the Terror had not faded away into the distant past . The times of Napoleon and Pitt and Robespierre were not farther off from ...
... living thing the fear of a renewal of the French Revolu- tion was in those days . The years of Jacobinism and the Terror had not faded away into the distant past . The times of Napoleon and Pitt and Robespierre were not farther off from ...
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Página 209 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival States...
Página 46 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Página 295 - There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present. There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Página 386 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Página 102 - It was an author in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the late victories of our naval sovereignty. Inquire at the Admiralty how the fleets of Nelson have been constructed, and they can tell you that it was with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted...
Página 26 - You know how opposed your whole "third manner" of execution is to the literary ideals which animate my crude and Orson-like breast, mine being to say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint of breathing and sighing all round and round it, to arouse in the reader who may have had a similar perception already (Heaven help him if he hasn't!) the illusion of a solid object, made (like the "ghost...
Página 40 - ... the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an actor, and coefficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human action — action which to a great extent transforms the world — help to make the truth which they declare. In other words, there belongs...
Página 40 - I, for my part, cannot escape the consideration, forced upon me at every turn, that the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an actor, and co-efficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create.
Página 46 - The British Government and the Government of India, on whom the responsibility lies for the welfare and advancement of the Indian peoples, must be judges of the time and measure of each advance, and they must be guided by the co-operation received from those upon whom new opportunities of service will thus be conferred and by the extent to which it is found that confidence can be reposed in their sense of responsibility.
Página 146 - ... many storms before. There is an Eastern story of a king with an uncertain temper who desired his astrologer to discover from the stars when his death would come. The astrologer, having cast the horoscope, replied that he could not find the date, but had ascertained only this, that the king's death would follow immediately on his own. So may it be said that Democracy will never perish till after Hope has expired.