Supplement to The Annals of Our Time: From February 28, 1871 to March 19, 1874Macmillan, 1875 - Great Britain |
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... Paris and to be de- prived of all speedy and satisfactory means of communicating with your lordship . My sub- sequent experience has , I confess , confirmed me in these opinions . On the day after I left Paris , all communication by ...
... Paris and to be de- prived of all speedy and satisfactory means of communicating with your lordship . My sub- sequent experience has , I confess , confirmed me in these opinions . On the day after I left Paris , all communication by ...
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... Paris . The first Uhlan made his appearance at the Arc de Triomphe about nine o'clock . He was soon followed by other Uhlans , and then by the main body of the Gccupying troops , the 6th and 11th Prussian Corps , with about 11,000 ...
... Paris . The first Uhlan made his appearance at the Arc de Triomphe about nine o'clock . He was soon followed by other Uhlans , and then by the main body of the Gccupying troops , the 6th and 11th Prussian Corps , with about 11,000 ...
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... Paris on their march homeward , Count Bis- marck having obtained from Jules Favre , in the forenoon , official intimation of the Treaty being ratified by the Bordeaux Assembly . The Em- peror telegraphed from Versailles to Berlin ...
... Paris on their march homeward , Count Bis- marck having obtained from Jules Favre , in the forenoon , official intimation of the Treaty being ratified by the Bordeaux Assembly . The Em- peror telegraphed from Versailles to Berlin ...
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... Paris , was valueless except for the defence of our own shores . - Earl Granville maintained that our armaments were sufficient to support our policy , and that at no time had the influence of this country in Continental politics been ...
... Paris , was valueless except for the defence of our own shores . - Earl Granville maintained that our armaments were sufficient to support our policy , and that at no time had the influence of this country in Continental politics been ...
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... Paris . The treaty also provided for the pro- longation of the European Commission of the Danube for twelve years , for the continual neutrality of the works already created or to be created by the Commission , and reserved the right of ...
... Paris . The treaty also provided for the pro- longation of the European Commission of the Danube for twelve years , for the continual neutrality of the works already created or to be created by the Commission , and reserved the right of ...
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Page 80 - I have therefore thought it not inappropriate to lead you to the consideration of the mental processes by which are formed those fundamental conceptions of matter and force, of cause and effect, of law and order, which furnish the basis of all scientific reasoning, and constitute the Philosophia prima of Bacon. There is a great deal of what I cannot but regard as fallacious and misleading philosophy— "oppositions of science, falsely so called" — abroad in the world at the present time.
Page 117 - 2. That as Holy Scripture, in divers places, doth promise life to them that believe, and declare the condemnation of them that believe not, so doth the Church in this confession declare the necessity for all who would be in a state of salvation of holding fast the Catholic faith, and the great peril of rejecting the same. Wherefore the warnings in this confession of faith are to be understood no otherwise than the like warnings...
Page 73 - States in respect of theso claims, they have arrived, individually and collectively, at the conclusion that these claims do not constitute, upon the principles of international law applicable to such cases, good foundation for an award ot compensation or computation of damages between nations...
Page 150 - I should say of the administration of the last five years that it would have been better for us all if there had been a little more energy in our foreign policy and a little less in our domestic- legislation.
Page 137 - Sovereign, and her successors, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland. To secure for that parliament, under a federal arrangement, the right of legislating for and regulating all matters relating to the internal affairs of Ireland, and control over Irish resources and revenues, subject to the obligation of contributing our just proportion of the Imperial expenditure.
Page 78 - ... soon ; that the political and commercial advantages of establishing a second route would at any time be considerable, and might, under possible circumstances, be exceedingly great ; and that it would be worth the while of the English Government to make an effort to secure them, considering the moderate pecuniary risk which they would incur.
Page 53 - They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care ap any powerful drug, and that' the directions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess, or necessarily for the continuance of its use when the occasion is past.
Page 144 - ... a small class which it would be much better for themselves if they were not enfranchised, because they have no independence whatsoever, and it would be much better for the constituency also that they should be excluded, and there is no class so much interested in having that small class excluded as the intelligent and honest working men. I call this class the residuum, which there is in almost every constituency, of almost hopeless poverty and dependence.
Page 34 - Hence and because we all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space.
Page 117 - Athanasius doth not make any addition to the faith as contained in Holy Scripture, but warneth against errors which from time to time...