The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen143A. Constable, 1876 |
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... become thoroughly effective and have an enduring form . Indeed , the proportions they have assumed are much in excess of what he ventured to ask for , and are ample for the domestic purposes of Great Britain and Ireland . The garrison ...
... become thoroughly effective and have an enduring form . Indeed , the proportions they have assumed are much in excess of what he ventured to ask for , and are ample for the domestic purposes of Great Britain and Ireland . The garrison ...
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... become excellent soldiers . In the meantime the State has paid for keep , main- tenance , and clothing during the three years in which the boy - recruit was becoming a man . Lord Raglan begged that such boy - recruits might not be sent ...
... become excellent soldiers . In the meantime the State has paid for keep , main- tenance , and clothing during the three years in which the boy - recruit was becoming a man . Lord Raglan begged that such boy - recruits might not be sent ...
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... becomes so large , that the forces at home must literally be swamped with the number of lads who are not fit to embark and are not allowed to embark according to the rules enforced by Parliament in 1871. The result has only to be stated ...
... becomes so large , that the forces at home must literally be swamped with the number of lads who are not fit to embark and are not allowed to embark according to the rules enforced by Parliament in 1871. The result has only to be stated ...
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... becoming fuller . The foreign demand for men must , however , be met by the executive according to the fiat of ... becomes the refuge of jail - birds , and occasionally men of the worst antecedents . It is true in these days we freely ...
... becoming fuller . The foreign demand for men must , however , be met by the executive according to the fiat of ... becomes the refuge of jail - birds , and occasionally men of the worst antecedents . It is true in these days we freely ...
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... become a soldier with the title of man when he was still a boy , he is thrown entirely on such artificial re- sources as he acquires in the military profession . But he as entirely loses the means of self - support when he shall quit ...
... become a soldier with the title of man when he was still a boy , he is thrown entirely on such artificial re- sources as he acquires in the military profession . But he as entirely loses the means of self - support when he shall quit ...
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Página 172 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
Página 172 - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
Página 581 - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
Página 127 - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Página 581 - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
Página 438 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
Página 568 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
Página 569 - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
Página 580 - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
Página 497 - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.