The London Quarterly Review, 130–131. köideTheodore Foster, 1871 |
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... course so straight , and the landmarks so unmistakable , that no captain would hesitate to run his vessel in , at high water , without any other pilotage than his own crew ought easily to afford . These places must , there- fore , for ...
... course so straight , and the landmarks so unmistakable , that no captain would hesitate to run his vessel in , at high water , without any other pilotage than his own crew ought easily to afford . These places must , there- fore , for ...
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... course be that a larger Wörth , and the victorious fleets combined force could by its means be despatched may be more than a match for what re- from Cherbourg , Brest , Antwerp , or Jahde , mains to us . The fact is , and no one and ...
... course be that a larger Wörth , and the victorious fleets combined force could by its means be despatched may be more than a match for what re- from Cherbourg , Brest , Antwerp , or Jahde , mains to us . The fact is , and no one and ...
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... course require 50,000 or 60,000 men to defend a great capital , but not 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers . When misfor- tunes and great calamities fall on a nation it may find itself without soldiers , but never without men sufficient for its ...
... course require 50,000 or 60,000 men to defend a great capital , but not 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers . When misfor- tunes and great calamities fall on a nation it may find itself without soldiers , but never without men sufficient for its ...
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... course , like to see a citadel on Banstead Downs , in rear of the first line of defence , and at least one entrenched camp to the north of London , which the enemy must leave behind him when he advanced from the capital to subdue the ...
... course , like to see a citadel on Banstead Downs , in rear of the first line of defence , and at least one entrenched camp to the north of London , which the enemy must leave behind him when he advanced from the capital to subdue the ...
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... course of this instruction he sold to his pupils a set of notes which he had drawn up , containing rules and directions for their guidance . These were in manuscript , and he charged a guinea for each copy . The novelty and great value ...
... course of this instruction he sold to his pupils a set of notes which he had drawn up , containing rules and directions for their guidance . These were in manuscript , and he charged a guinea for each copy . The novelty and great value ...
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Page 173 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 266 - Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Page 24 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Eros. It does, my lord. Ant. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body : here I am Antony ; Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.
Page 168 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 171 - And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest of crimes contrived long since, He stood at bold defiance with his Prince, Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulked behind the laws.
Page 74 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul...
Page 163 - You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Page 266 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Page 23 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew - forms such as never were in Nature...
Page 4 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.