The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 193A. Constable, 1901 |
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... period . He would be reluctant to acknow- ledge that he could not give an intelligible account of the coup d'état of 1851. Yet he would hardly be ashamed to confess that he had never heard of the event which Mr. Rhodes has made the ...
... period . He would be reluctant to acknow- ledge that he could not give an intelligible account of the coup d'état of 1851. Yet he would hardly be ashamed to confess that he had never heard of the event which Mr. Rhodes has made the ...
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... period - were a Squatter Sovereignty , ' and should themselves determine whether the State in which they squatted ' should be slave or free . While this controversy was still enduring and its issue was still uncertain , the discovery of ...
... period - were a Squatter Sovereignty , ' and should themselves determine whether the State in which they squatted ' should be slave or free . While this controversy was still enduring and its issue was still uncertain , the discovery of ...
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... period . So great was the demand for slave labour that prominent Southern politicians were openly agitating for the repeal of the Act which made slave trade a piracy . But , while economical reasons of this character were inducing the ...
... period . So great was the demand for slave labour that prominent Southern politicians were openly agitating for the repeal of the Act which made slave trade a piracy . But , while economical reasons of this character were inducing the ...
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... period . It is reckoned that , between battle and disease , a million of men lost their lives or were crippled in the war . ' The expenditure which it occasioned , the destruction to which it led , exceeded anything that had previously ...
... period . It is reckoned that , between battle and disease , a million of men lost their lives or were crippled in the war . ' The expenditure which it occasioned , the destruction to which it led , exceeded anything that had previously ...
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... periods when symbolic , mythical , and allegorical art became more and more pictorial in quality and character . He has traced the later developements when nature , viewed more especially in the light of a mere background , decorative ...
... periods when symbolic , mythical , and allegorical art became more and more pictorial in quality and character . He has traced the later developements when nature , viewed more especially in the light of a mere background , decorative ...
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Сторінка 112 - You must get men of a spirit, and take it not ill what I say — I know you will not — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else you will be beaten still.
Сторінка 226 - I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people, on all sorts of subjects, and never knew her in the wrong. She humbles the learned, sets right their disciples, and finds conversation for everybody.
Сторінка 106 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Сторінка 131 - It is time for us to regard him as he really was, with all his physical and moral audacity, with all his tenderness and spiritual yearnings, in the world of action what Shakespeare was in the world of thought, the greatest because the most typical Englishman of all time.
Сторінка 113 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
Сторінка 126 - The mind is the man. If that be kept pure, a man signifies somewhat; if not, I would very fain see what difference there is betwixt him and a beast He hath only some activity to do some more mischief.
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Сторінка 128 - You have accounted yourselves happy in being environed with a great Ditch from all the world beside. Truly you will not be able to keep your Ditch, nor your Shipping, — unless you turn your Ships and Shipping into Troops of Horse and Companies of Foot ; and fight to defend yourselves on terra firma ! — And these things stated, liberavi animam meam ; and if there be " no danger" in ' all