The Living Age, Volume 313Living Age Company, 1922 - Literature |
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... fact , it was quite subnormal . . . . The year ended on a more hopeful note . For some the only reason for this optimism was the feeling that it was impossible to repeat the record of so disastrous a year . But there were , in fact ...
... fact , it was quite subnormal . . . . The year ended on a more hopeful note . For some the only reason for this optimism was the feeling that it was impossible to repeat the record of so disastrous a year . But there were , in fact ...
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... fact that he was not a popular figure in France . But now that Berthelot has left the Foreign Office , the ex - President is supposed to be the only man with a thorough knowledge of the secret his- tory of international relations during ...
... fact that he was not a popular figure in France . But now that Berthelot has left the Foreign Office , the ex - President is supposed to be the only man with a thorough knowledge of the secret his- tory of international relations during ...
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... fact we have at this moment nearly 900,000 men under arms in time of peace . There are more than 100,000 occupying the Left bank of the Rhine . The same number are in Morocco . There are 80,000 in Syria . Thousands of French soldiers ...
... fact we have at this moment nearly 900,000 men under arms in time of peace . There are more than 100,000 occupying the Left bank of the Rhine . The same number are in Morocco . There are 80,000 in Syria . Thousands of French soldiers ...
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... fact that it survived , not only the war , but later nineteenth- century architecture . Looking at one of these houses , you of these houses , you would say that no family that entered it , with however rosy and smiling faces , could ...
... fact that it survived , not only the war , but later nineteenth- century architecture . Looking at one of these houses , you of these houses , you would say that no family that entered it , with however rosy and smiling faces , could ...
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... fact , the Albanian cloak merely hangs down from the shoulders and does not cover the arms ; it is a mere ornament . Later , under- neath the robe , the Albanian wore loose white breeches with black embroidery , or black breeches with ...
... fact , the Albanian cloak merely hangs down from the shoulders and does not cover the arms ; it is a mere ornament . Later , under- neath the robe , the Albanian wore loose white breeches with black embroidery , or black breeches with ...
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Page 48 - CHRISTMAS EVE, and twelve of the clock. " Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave in these years ! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, " Come ; see the oxen kneel " In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him...
Page 494 - Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away. But they are still immortal , • Who, through birth's orient portal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing flight In the brief dust and light Gathered around their chariots as they go...
Page 67 - His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country...
Page 157 - A phantom among men ; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness...
Page 68 - To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world...
Page 68 - Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone.
Page 132 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by International action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 47 - Strange that ephemeral creatures who By my own ordering are, Should see the shortness of my view, Use ethic tests I never knew, Or made provision for!
Page 356 - Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail, Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive, Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy...
Page 312 - MINE, you are to know, is a white melancholy, or rather leucocholy for the most part ; which, though it seldom laughs or dances, nor ever amounts to what one calls joy or pleasure, yet is a good easy sort of a state, and 93 ne laisse que de s'amuser.