The Quarterly Review, Volume 225William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1916 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 8
... foreign soil for the first time in their history , and to do it at a truly great sacrifice , we must know something about the transformation of Canadian national life in recent years . The past few decades had been the most prosperous ...
... foreign soil for the first time in their history , and to do it at a truly great sacrifice , we must know something about the transformation of Canadian national life in recent years . The past few decades had been the most prosperous ...
Page 15
... foreign power - for these reasons Canadians are going to the front and they will continue to go . They go not because Great Britain says they must , nor because they have any special hatred for the Germans , nor because the adventures ...
... foreign power - for these reasons Canadians are going to the front and they will continue to go . They go not because Great Britain says they must , nor because they have any special hatred for the Germans , nor because the adventures ...
Page 16
... foreign country . Certainly , there is hardly a publication about rural Denmark which is altogether free from slips ; in many cases , indeed , it is charitable to call them slips . Some visitors to Denmark have not gone thither with an ...
... foreign country . Certainly , there is hardly a publication about rural Denmark which is altogether free from slips ; in many cases , indeed , it is charitable to call them slips . Some visitors to Denmark have not gone thither with an ...
Page 17
... foreign customers the wherewithal to buy all the necessities of modern life beyond bread , meat , milk , and cheese . The English , Scots , and Irish farmer's eyes are ordinarily on the corn and hay and straw merchants and the cattle ...
... foreign customers the wherewithal to buy all the necessities of modern life beyond bread , meat , milk , and cheese . The English , Scots , and Irish farmer's eyes are ordinarily on the corn and hay and straw merchants and the cattle ...
Page 39
... Foreign Affairs and of Finance . During the inter- national political crisis of 1908 he again acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs , and rendered his country good service by his calm and far - sighted diplomacy . Having been elected ...
... Foreign Affairs and of Finance . During the inter- national political crisis of 1908 he again acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs , and rendered his country good service by his calm and far - sighted diplomacy . Having been elected ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addison aeroplanes Africa agricultural Alain-Fournier Allies amount Antwerp areas army attack Balkan Belgian Belgium blockade Britain British Bulgaria Cabinet Canada Canadian cent classes co-operative Committee contraband Danish Dardanelles Declaration of London declared defence demand Denmark duty effect Empire enemy England English existence expenditure exports extent fact farmers favour Finland force foreign forests France French front frontier German German South-West Africa Government Greece hand Imperial important increase industrial interest labour land large numbers less loans Lord Lord Kitchener Maritz ment military Minister months neutral neutral countries Office Order in Council organisation Parliament party peace Péguy political ports position possible present problems question realised reason recognised refugees regard result Russia Salonika Scotland Scout secure Serbia ships societies soldiers South African South African Party spirit supply things tion trade troops Union United Kingdom whole women
Popular passages
Page 248 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Page 239 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Page 11 - I am for it, because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the north pole!
Page 166 - ... by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately. I have desired this and worked for it, as far as I could, through the last Balkan crisis, and, Germany having a corresponding object, our relations sensibly improved. The idea has hitherto been too Utopian to form the subject of definite proposals, but if this present crisis, so much more acute than any that Europe has gone through for generations, be safely passed, I am hopeful that the relief and reaction which will follow may make possible...
Page 246 - Fenc'd on the Lower End by a Natural mound of Rock-work that strikes the Eye very Agreeably. For my part I think there is something more charming in these rude heaps of Stone than in so many Statues, and wou'd as soon see a River winding through Woods and Meadows as when it is toss'd up in such a Variety of figures at Versailles.
Page 245 - A MAN who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his writings to the world in loose tracts and single pieces. We do not expect to meet with any thing in a bulky volume, till after some heavy preamble, and several words of course to prepare the reader for what follows : nay, authors have established it as a kind of rule that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the...
Page 239 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce. It is nat honest, it may nat avaunce For to delen with no swich poraille, But al with riche and sellers of vitaille.
Page 445 - during the continuance of the present war, to issue regulations,' or, in other words, to make any laws which approve themselves to the Cabinet, ' for securing the public safety and the defence of the realm.
Page 165 - If the peace of Europe can be preserved, and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavour will be to promote some arrangement to which Germany could be a party, by which she could be assured that no aggressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately.
Page 402 - He must do at least one good turn to somebody every day. 4. A scout is friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother to every other scout.