The London Quarterly Review, Volúmenes130-131Theodore Foster, 1871 |
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... land , 50 ; sources of ' extra ' revenue , ib .; the revenue of the Government about half the rental of its whole Indian territories , 52 ; the salt - tax from 500 to 2500 per cent . on the prime cost , 52 , 53 ; revenue from spirits ...
... land , 50 ; sources of ' extra ' revenue , ib .; the revenue of the Government about half the rental of its whole Indian territories , 52 ; the salt - tax from 500 to 2500 per cent . on the prime cost , 52 , 53 ; revenue from spirits ...
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... land forces which are similarly situated , are very far , when taken together , from being a sufficient defence : for the evident reason that they cannot act together , but must be taken in succession . If our fleet is over- matched and ...
... land forces which are similarly situated , are very far , when taken together , from being a sufficient defence : for the evident reason that they cannot act together , but must be taken in succession . If our fleet is over- matched and ...
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... land defences of the Dockyards there would have been more excuse for their ac- tion , and the injury caused would have been very much less ; for the landworks could be erected much more easily and quickly , and besides the probability ...
... land defences of the Dockyards there would have been more excuse for their ac- tion , and the injury caused would have been very much less ; for the landworks could be erected much more easily and quickly , and besides the probability ...
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... land , no object would have been gained by such an operation at all adequate to the risk or to compensate for the indignation such an act would have excited . It is true , no doubt , that the mouth of the Thames might , to some extent ...
... land , no object would have been gained by such an operation at all adequate to the risk or to compensate for the indignation such an act would have excited . It is true , no doubt , that the mouth of the Thames might , to some extent ...
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... land . But to do this the enemy must feel sure of his naval superiority at sea . Abstractedly it is not true - though so frequently asserted- that steam has bridged the Channel . would of course be so , if the enemy em- ployed steam and ...
... land . But to do this the enemy must feel sure of his naval superiority at sea . Abstractedly it is not true - though so frequently asserted- that steam has bridged the Channel . would of course be so , if the enemy em- ployed steam and ...
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Página 264 - Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Página 24 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Eros. It does, my lord. Ant. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body : here I am Antony ; Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.
Página 166 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Página 169 - And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest of crimes contrived long since, He stood at bold defiance with his Prince, Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulked behind the laws.
Página 72 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul...
Página 161 - You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Página 264 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Página 21 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew - forms such as never were in Nature...
Página 2 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.