The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 219A. Constable, 1914 |
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... A very desirable state of affairs , it may be , but nothing short of a revolution will be required to bring it about . Sir Almroth hints that the House of Peers was deprived of its last shred of authority over 22 Jan. THE SOLVENCY OF WOMAN.
... A very desirable state of affairs , it may be , but nothing short of a revolution will be required to bring it about . Sir Almroth hints that the House of Peers was deprived of its last shred of authority over 22 Jan. THE SOLVENCY OF WOMAN.
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... House of Lords must not be bound by the apparent con- sequences of its own decisions . Logic is a good engine of warfare but a bad guide . But when we come to justice and expediency we are on more solid ground . We are not going to ...
... House of Lords must not be bound by the apparent con- sequences of its own decisions . Logic is a good engine of warfare but a bad guide . But when we come to justice and expediency we are on more solid ground . We are not going to ...
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... house . At the age of sixteen Beyle arrived in Paris , just after the coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire had made Bonaparte First Consul , and he immediately came under the influence of his cousin Daru , that extraordinary man to whose ...
... house . At the age of sixteen Beyle arrived in Paris , just after the coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire had made Bonaparte First Consul , and he immediately came under the influence of his cousin Daru , that extraordinary man to whose ...
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... house of a common friend between him and Hugo , in which the two men faced each other , like a couple of cats with their backs up and their whiskers bristling . No wonder ! But Beyle's true attitude towards his great contemporaries was ...
... house of a common friend between him and Hugo , in which the two men faced each other , like a couple of cats with their backs up and their whiskers bristling . No wonder ! But Beyle's true attitude towards his great contemporaries was ...
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... houses or mansions ; many consist of nothing more than a room , and this room is frequently small . And yet they are all the same , for they all of them bear witness to the same virtues of discipline , courage , self - denial ...
... houses or mansions ; many consist of nothing more than a room , and this room is frequently small . And yet they are all the same , for they all of them bear witness to the same virtues of discipline , courage , self - denial ...
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Página 228 - States which have undergone a change of government due to revolution, the results of which threaten other States, ipso facto, cease to be members of the European Alliance, and remain excluded from it until their situation gives guarantees for legal order and stability. If, owing to such alterations, immediate danger threatens other States, the Powers bind themselves, by peaceful means, or if need be by arms, to bring back the guilty State into the bosom of the Great Alliance.
Página 228 - The people of the United States have a vital interest in the cause of popular self-government.
Página 226 - It cannot be too often and too emphatically asserted that the United States has not the slightest desire for territorial aggrandizement at the expense of any of its southern neighbors, and will not treat the Monroe Doctrine as an excuse for such aggrandizement on its part.
Página 330 - C'est que la Liberté n'est pas une comtesse Du noble faubourg Saint-Germain, Une femme qu'un cri fait tomber en faiblesse, Qui met du blanc et du carmin : C'est une forte femme aux puissantes mamelles, A la voix rauque, aux durs appas...
Página 493 - God is our guide ! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom, We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom : And hark ! we raise from sea to sea, The sacred watchword, Liberty.
Página 223 - The acquisition of San Domingo is an adherence to the " Monroe doctrine;" it is a measure of national protection ; it is asserting our just claim to a controlling influence over the great commercial traffic soon to flow from west to east, by way of the Isthmus of Darien...
Página 439 - That all further extension of territory or assumption of government, or new treaties offering any protection to native tribes, would be inexpedient...
Página 44 - Nous avouerons que notre héros était fort peu héros en ce moment. Toutefois, la peur ne venait chez lui qu'en seconde ligne; il était surtout scandalisé de ce bruit qui lui faisait mal aux oreilles.
Página 422 - I heard them both, and oh! I heard The song of every singing bird That sings beneath the sky, And with the song of lark and wren The song of mountains, moths and men And seas and rainbows vie!