The Quarterly Review, Volume 230William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1918 - English literature |
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... Empire in the fourth century of our era . The old world was passing away in storm and agony , its frontiers assailed , its creeds challenged and perplexed , its social tissue suffering a slow and steady process of degeneration , which ...
... Empire in the fourth century of our era . The old world was passing away in storm and agony , its frontiers assailed , its creeds challenged and perplexed , its social tissue suffering a slow and steady process of degeneration , which ...
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... Empire . We have no external evidence as to the character of the lost books of Ammianus . Probably Gibbon is right in assuming that the first thirteen books were but ' a superficial epitome of two hundred and fifty- seven years . ' It ...
... Empire . We have no external evidence as to the character of the lost books of Ammianus . Probably Gibbon is right in assuming that the first thirteen books were but ' a superficial epitome of two hundred and fifty- seven years . ' It ...
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... Empire , because it was spoken in the armies and the public offices , because it was the instru- ment of a public career , and because , through the use of a long line of poets , historians , philosophers and legists , Latin might be ...
... Empire , because it was spoken in the armies and the public offices , because it was the instru- ment of a public career , and because , through the use of a long line of poets , historians , philosophers and legists , Latin might be ...
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... Empire . But , in his many allusions to Rome , Ammianus was not chiefly inspired by the emotions of the architectural connoisseur or the retired veteran from the provinces , dazzled by the glittering marbles and huge structures of the ...
... Empire . But , in his many allusions to Rome , Ammianus was not chiefly inspired by the emotions of the architectural connoisseur or the retired veteran from the provinces , dazzled by the glittering marbles and huge structures of the ...
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... Empire . It is not , therefore , to him that we must look for an apprecia- tion of the strength and promise of the Christian life . A cold and somewhat scornful spectator of ecclesiastical events , he appears to be unversed in the ...
... Empire . It is not , therefore , to him that we must look for an apprecia- tion of the strength and promise of the Christian life . A cold and somewhat scornful spectator of ecclesiastical events , he appears to be unversed in the ...
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Page 398 - Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire. They have decided that substantial steps in this direction should be taken as soon as possible...
Page 389 - The House is crammed : tier beyond tier they grin And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks Of harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din, ' We're sure the Kaiser loves the dear old Tanks ! ' " I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls, Lurching to rag-time tunes, or ' Home, sweet Home ! ' — And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.
Page 11 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Page 398 - The British Government and the Government of India, on whom the responsibility lies for the welfare and advancement of the Indian peoples, must be judges of the time and measure of each advance, and they must be guided by the co-operation received from those upon whom new opportunities of service will thus be conferred and by the extent to which it is found that confidence can be reposed in their sense of responsibility.
Page 253 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act...
Page 380 - Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can win us; Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away.
Page 346 - ... —Provided that the Court may, notwithstanding that they are of opinion that the point raised in the appeal might be decided in favour of the appellant, dismiss the appeal if they consider that no substantial miscarriage of justice has actually occurred.
Page 96 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Page 380 - And so by ship to sea, and knew no more The fields of home, the byres, the market towns, Nor the dear outline of the English shore, But knew the misery of the soaking trench, The freezing in the rigging, the despair In the revolting second of the wrench When the blind soul is flung upon the air, And died (uncouthly, most) in foreign lands For some idea but dimly understood Of an English city never built by hands Which love of England prompted and made good.
Page 14 - The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.