The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 192A. Constable, 1900 |
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... principle of election ; but they had not yet got so far as this . The Lion might have known that oaths sworn in his dread presence to a female succession would be unsworn when he was gone . Accordingly , when a surfeit of lampreys had ...
... principle of election ; but they had not yet got so far as this . The Lion might have known that oaths sworn in his dread presence to a female succession would be unsworn when he was gone . Accordingly , when a surfeit of lampreys had ...
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... principle in speaking of the accession of Henry VII . , when he says : - ' On the field of Bosworth , Henry Tudor put on the circlet taken from the head of the slain Richard . This was his real coronation . His title was victory ...
... principle in speaking of the accession of Henry VII . , when he says : - ' On the field of Bosworth , Henry Tudor put on the circlet taken from the head of the slain Richard . This was his real coronation . His title was victory ...
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... principles of maritime warfare , he is nevertheless a powerful writer and perhaps the one who best deserves a place - if with a long interval between - next after his eminent American contemporary . In 1877 Captain Chevalier published ...
... principles of maritime warfare , he is nevertheless a powerful writer and perhaps the one who best deserves a place - if with a long interval between - next after his eminent American contemporary . In 1877 Captain Chevalier published ...
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... principle that had made the old Bourbon navy so efficient . In 1782 , ' says the American historian Theodore Roosevelt , * ' the French marine was at its highest point ; it was com- manded by officers of ability and experience ...
... principle that had made the old Bourbon navy so efficient . In 1782 , ' says the American historian Theodore Roosevelt , * ' the French marine was at its highest point ; it was com- manded by officers of ability and experience ...
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... principle that our navy's true objective was the enemy's fleet . We hope that this principle may never be forgotten . If , says Captain Chevalier , the result in question is brought about , England is freed from all apprehension of ...
... principle that our navy's true objective was the enemy's fleet . We hope that this principle may never be forgotten . If , says Captain Chevalier , the result in question is brought about , England is freed from all apprehension of ...
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Seite 372 - What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Seite 373 - falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
Seite 371 - And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have pass'd away, I might have watch'd through long decay.
Seite 373 - Is it some yet imperial hope , That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone ? To die a prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI.
Seite 384 - The total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.
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Seite 103 - I had received from his Majesty, to add that, in the present instance, his Majesty does not intend to depart from the usual course of proceeding on such occasions. I am sorry to have delayed some hours this answer to your Grace's letter : but from the nature of the subject I did not like to forward it without having previously submitted it (together with your Grace's letter) to his Majesty.
Seite 309 - Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.
Seite 255 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws...
Seite 262 - No appeal shall be permitted to the Queen in Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se...