The Quarterly Review, Volume 209William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1908 - English literature |
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Page 486 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Page 376 - ... was to be admitted to lodge there, so that they might not be turned from Hospitia (inns) to Diversoria (taverns). In order to preserve the difference between a councillor at law, ' which is the principal person next unto serjeants and judges, . . . and attorneys and solicitors, which are but ministerial persons, and of an inferior nature,' no attorney or solicitor was henceforth to be admitted of any of the four Houses of Court.
Page 177 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
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Page 277 - be replaced by ' I am a German citizen'!" On the 18th of October 1899, his Majesty made a speech in which he said, " We are in bitter need of a strong German navy. ... If the increase demanded during the first years of my reign had not been continually refused to me in spite of my pressing entreaties and warnings, for which I have even experienced derision and ridicule, how differently should we be able to further our flourishing commerce, and our interests over sea.