The Quarterly Review, Volumen227William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1917 |
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... possible , hope must assume the varying and elusive colours of the rainbow . The soul projects itself outwards and finds its own strength or weakness in the unknown world of its dreams . The powerlessness of the imagination , however ...
... possible , hope must assume the varying and elusive colours of the rainbow . The soul projects itself outwards and finds its own strength or weakness in the unknown world of its dreams . The powerlessness of the imagination , however ...
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... possible re - establishment of normal racial qualities in the course of many generations , who can measure the inestimable harm and loss meanwhile ? Who can estimate the evil of there being fewer able or competent people left to control ...
... possible re - establishment of normal racial qualities in the course of many generations , who can measure the inestimable harm and loss meanwhile ? Who can estimate the evil of there being fewer able or competent people left to control ...
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... possible to the least effective workman employed . The difficulties in the way of such statistical research , though great , are not insuperable ; and the Government should see to it that they are put in hand when peace comes and the ...
... possible to the least effective workman employed . The difficulties in the way of such statistical research , though great , are not insuperable ; and the Government should see to it that they are put in hand when peace comes and the ...
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... possible indirect taxes have been imposed , it will be necessary , in all probability , to raise some hundreds of millions a year in direct taxation . Unless something drastic is done , the effect on the output of children among the ...
... possible indirect taxes have been imposed , it will be necessary , in all probability , to raise some hundreds of millions a year in direct taxation . Unless something drastic is done , the effect on the output of children among the ...
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... possible , by lowering death - duties rather than income tax . Owing to the inevitable chances of family life , death - duties are often grossly unfair to one family as compared with another ; and anything which would lessen the real ...
... possible , by lowering death - duties rather than income tax . Owing to the inevitable chances of family life , death - duties are often grossly unfair to one family as compared with another ; and anything which would lessen the real ...
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Página 468 - Dip down upon the northern shore, O sweet new-year delaying long ; Thou doest expectant nature wrong ; Delaying long, delay no more. What stays thee from the clouded noons, Thy sweetness from its proper place ? Can trouble live with April days, Or sadness in the summer moons ? Bring orchis, bring the foxglove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue, Deep tulips dash'd with fiery dew, Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire.
Página 470 - tis something; we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.
Página 426 - His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the government, and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in these territories...
Página 5 - Eternal life ; and then endeavour to draw any conclusions from this assumed belief, as to their present business, they will forthwith tell you that " what you say is very beautiful, but it is not practical.
Página 467 - Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow.
Página 423 - If Batoum, Ardahan, Kars, or any of them shall be retained by Russia, and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take possession of any further territories of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia, as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join his Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms.
Página 115 - The noiseless, steady, exhausting pressure with which sea power acts, cutting off the resources of the enemy while maintaining its own, supporting war in scenes where it does not appear itself, or appears only in the background, and striking open blows at rare intervals, though lost to most, is emphasized to the careful reader by the events of this war and of the halfcentury that followed.
Página 21 - In every country in which a large standing army is kept up, the finest young men are taken by the conscription or are enlisted. They are thus exposed to early death during war, are often tempted into vice, and are prevented from marrying during the prime of life. On the other hand the shorter and feebler men, with poor constitutions, are left at home, and consequently have a much better chance of marrying and propagating their kind.
Página 470 - Runs it not here, the track by Childsworth Farm, Past the high wood, to where the elm-tree crowns The hill behind whose ridge the sunset flames? The signal-elm, that looks on Ilsley Downs, The Vale, the three lone weirs, the youthful Thames?
Página 470 - And thou from earth art gone Long since, and in some quiet churchyard laid — Some country-nook, where o'er thy unknown grave Tall grasses and white flowering nettles wave, Under a dark, red-fruited yew-tree's shade.