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... Lord Stowell crystallized in his prize - courts , and which Russia has been endeavoring to apply , we might find ourselves faced by a much more formidable combina- tion than any we could possibly have encountered a hundred years , or ...
... Lord Stowell crystallized in his prize - courts , and which Russia has been endeavoring to apply , we might find ourselves faced by a much more formidable combina- tion than any we could possibly have encountered a hundred years , or ...
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... Lord's : but the earth hath he given to the children of men . There is a vast truth in this yet to be discovered ; power and influence and responsibility lie before us , appalling in their magnitude , and as yet we are but children ...
... Lord's : but the earth hath he given to the children of men . There is a vast truth in this yet to be discovered ; power and influence and responsibility lie before us , appalling in their magnitude , and as yet we are but children ...
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... Lord Lansdowne deny that the above goods are contraband , but as they have failed to give effect to their denial or to back it by any manifestation of force , as they have failed to exact compensation for the seizure of the Allanton and ...
... Lord Lansdowne deny that the above goods are contraband , but as they have failed to give effect to their denial or to back it by any manifestation of force , as they have failed to exact compensation for the seizure of the Allanton and ...
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... Lord ! " said he , and laughed . He was a man of fifty or sixty - just the kind of age we mistrust on the road - but there was no anxiety in his manner , and his voice was that of a boy of eighteen . " But it must lead somewhere ! " I ...
... Lord ! " said he , and laughed . He was a man of fifty or sixty - just the kind of age we mistrust on the road - but there was no anxiety in his manner , and his voice was that of a boy of eighteen . " But it must lead somewhere ! " I ...
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... Lord Carabas is a well - drawn charac- ter , and so is the disappointed politi- cian , Cleveland ; and the card - sharper , Königstein ( for whom , in spite of all , there is a tinge of pity in the reader's mind ) ; and Essper George ...
... Lord Carabas is a well - drawn charac- ter , and so is the disappointed politi- cian , Cleveland ; and the card - sharper , Königstein ( for whom , in spite of all , there is a tinge of pity in the reader's mind ) ; and Essper George ...
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Page 350 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 400 - FROM THE SEA. Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Page 167 - Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons ; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Page 351 - Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To cure the dark and erring mind ; But who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind...
Page 4 - We insist that we ought to do for the Filipinos what we have already done for the Cubans, and it is our duty to make that promise now, and upon suitable guarantees of protection to citizens of our own and other countries resident there at the time of our withdrawal, set the Filipino people upon their feet, free and independent, to work out their own destiny. The endeavor of the Secretary of War, by pledging the Government's indorsement for "promoters...
Page 206 - The humour has all given way to pathos and tenderness. We have here the innermost heart of the Celt in the moments he has grown to love through years of persecution, when, cushioning himself about with dreams, and hearing fairy-songs in the twilight, he ponders on the soul and on the dead. Here is the Celt, only it is the Celt dreaming.
Page 72 - He was opposed to all privilege, and indeed to all orders of men, except dukes, who were a necessity He was also strongly in favour of the equal division of all property, except land.
Page 318 - If these self-evident truths are kept before us, and only if they are so kept before us, we shall have a clear idea of what our foreign policy in its larger aspects should be. It is our duty to remember that a nation has no more right to do injustice to another nation, strong or weak, than an individual has to do injustice to another individual; that the same moral law applies in one case as in the other. But we must also remember that it is as much the duty of the Nation to guard its own rights...
Page 319 - ... their own peoples, more responsive to the general sentiment of humane and civilized mankind; and on the other hand that it should keep prepared, while scrupulously avoiding wrongdoing itself, to repel any wrong, and in exceptional cases to take action which in a more advanced stage of international relations would come under the head of the exercise of the international police. A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.
Page 315 - If in the above event any other Power or Powers should join in hostilities against that ally, the other High Contracting Party will come to its assistance and will conduct the war in common, and make peace in mutual agreement with it Article IV.