The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 192A. Constable, 1900 |
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... doubts . The popular idea of Archbishop Thomas - very commonly called Becket - is that he was the champion of liberty against an arbitrary king , and died in glorious martyrdom for the cause to which he had devoted his life . This is ...
... doubts . The popular idea of Archbishop Thomas - very commonly called Becket - is that he was the champion of liberty against an arbitrary king , and died in glorious martyrdom for the cause to which he had devoted his life . This is ...
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... doubt he had more than once slipped on the way . . . . He had undergone the evil influences , not only of faction , but of civil strife . His vision as a statesman could not extend beyond the horizon of his age , an age of state ...
... doubt he had more than once slipped on the way . . . . He had undergone the evil influences , not only of faction , but of civil strife . His vision as a statesman could not extend beyond the horizon of his age , an age of state ...
Side 43
... doubt that he wishes French cruisers to be equal in force to the largest ships of the ' same type belonging to the enemy . ' As regards submarine boats he suspends judgement . C Summarised , his opinions are that the French fleet should ...
... doubt that he wishes French cruisers to be equal in force to the largest ships of the ' same type belonging to the enemy . ' As regards submarine boats he suspends judgement . C Summarised , his opinions are that the French fleet should ...
Side 52
... doubt is twin to each purpose , and a question is born with every enterprise . But in those elder days the hearts of simpler men knew less of the ebb - tide of their desires , and Hugues de Paganis , undaunted by failure , set sail for ...
... doubt is twin to each purpose , and a question is born with every enterprise . But in those elder days the hearts of simpler men knew less of the ebb - tide of their desires , and Hugues de Paganis , undaunted by failure , set sail for ...
Side 53
... few readers of history can doubt . As soldiers their story is a story of nearly two centuries of chequered warfare , followed by final and irremediable defeat . 1900. Knights Templars - Soldiers , Monks , Heretics . 53.
... few readers of history can doubt . As soldiers their story is a story of nearly two centuries of chequered warfare , followed by final and irremediable defeat . 1900. Knights Templars - Soldiers , Monks , Heretics . 53.
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Side 372 - What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Side 373 - falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
Side 371 - And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have pass'd away, I might have watch'd through long decay.
Side 373 - Is it some yet imperial hope , That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone ? To die a prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI.
Side 384 - The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.
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Side 103 - I had received from his Majesty, to add that, in the present instance, his Majesty does not intend to depart from the usual course of proceeding on such occasions. I am sorry to have delayed some hours this answer to your Grace's letter : but from the nature of the subject I did not like to forward it without having previously submitted it (together with your Grace's letter) to his Majesty.
Side 309 - Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.
Side 255 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws...
Side 262 - No appeal shall be permitted to the Queen in Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se...