The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and ArtLeavitt, Trow, & Company, 1904 |
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... better bread than can be made of political wheat . " He follows up his sally with an enumeration of cases in which other ministers have taken a like course without incurring the same censure . The argument is plausible , but not very ...
... better bread than can be made of political wheat . " He follows up his sally with an enumeration of cases in which other ministers have taken a like course without incurring the same censure . The argument is plausible , but not very ...
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... better for his own fame , and for the He welfare of his country , if he had . never understood the problem of de- fence , least of all that of naval de- fence ; and he seemed to think it quite natural that the Admiralty should be ...
... better for his own fame , and for the He welfare of his country , if he had . never understood the problem of de- fence , least of all that of naval de- fence ; and he seemed to think it quite natural that the Admiralty should be ...
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... better not have been done . But it was a storm in a tea - cup at the worst ; and what administration has ever existed , down to the present day , which can afford to throw stones on the score of jobs ? A more serious question arises as ...
... better not have been done . But it was a storm in a tea - cup at the worst ; and what administration has ever existed , down to the present day , which can afford to throw stones on the score of jobs ? A more serious question arises as ...
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... better than these laborious exercises in a dialect where cockney slang is overlaid with purple patches ; and much better is " Bridge Guard in the Karroo . " But what madness in- duced Mr. Kipling to include the verses which he calls 46 ...
... better than these laborious exercises in a dialect where cockney slang is overlaid with purple patches ; and much better is " Bridge Guard in the Karroo . " But what madness in- duced Mr. Kipling to include the verses which he calls 46 ...
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... better only guessing the nature of his reflections . One has only to take up and read Mr. Morley's fiery tractate , National Educa- tion ( 1873 ) , to perceive , what appar- ently the Prime Minister and the bishops cannot do , that the ...
... better only guessing the nature of his reflections . One has only to take up and read Mr. Morley's fiery tractate , National Educa- tion ( 1873 ) , to perceive , what appar- ently the Prime Minister and the bishops cannot do , that the ...
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Page 336 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 336 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 335 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 734 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 429 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United States that, the right of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the government and citizens of the United States...
Page 48 - Stout Skippon hath a wound ; the centre hath given ground : Hark ! hark ! — What means the trampling of horsemen on our rear ? Whose banner do I see, boys ? Tis he, thank God, 'tis he, boys. Bear up another minute : brave Oliver is here.
Page 172 - with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!' 'Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,
Page 251 - ... rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together ; the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be, Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet ; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Page 177 - Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
Page 47 - Provided always, that every man or woman, of what estate or condition that he be, shall be free to set their son or daughter to take learning at any manner school that pleaseth them within the Realm.