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... BOER PRISONERS : A SUGGESTED OBJECT LESSON . By Mrs. John Richard Green . 755 THE NATIONAL THEATRE . By Frank R ... BOERS . By the Rev. Dr. Wirgman • · THE NEXT CORONATION . By L. W. Vernon Harcourt THREE SCENES FROM M. ROSTAND'S L ...
... BOER PRISONERS : A SUGGESTED OBJECT LESSON . By Mrs. John Richard Green . 755 THE NATIONAL THEATRE . By Frank R ... BOERS . By the Rev. Dr. Wirgman • · THE NEXT CORONATION . By L. W. Vernon Harcourt THREE SCENES FROM M. ROSTAND'S L ...
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... Boer picket . Halt after halt was made in order that in the mist no mistake should occur as to the direction of the ... Boers fired heavily -their rifles flashing irregularly through the darkness — and the leading line , the ' T.M.I. ...
... Boer picket . Halt after halt was made in order that in the mist no mistake should occur as to the direction of the ... Boers fired heavily -their rifles flashing irregularly through the darkness — and the leading line , the ' T.M.I. ...
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... Boers would be silenced by our guns , which would assuredly be brought into position from some commanding ground in rear , or to left rear or right rear ; that the holding of Spion Kop , which from below seemed a magnificent position ...
... Boers would be silenced by our guns , which would assuredly be brought into position from some commanding ground in rear , or to left rear or right rear ; that the holding of Spion Kop , which from below seemed a magnificent position ...
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... Boer position must have become untenable ; but the column which had carried the hill was now destined to meet an enemy which , everywhere entrenched , enveloped it on three sides— had now to struggle with the entire Boer force which ...
... Boer position must have become untenable ; but the column which had carried the hill was now destined to meet an enemy which , everywhere entrenched , enveloped it on three sides— had now to struggle with the entire Boer force which ...
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... Boer field - cornet rode up in the half - light to inspect his picket . Not till he was within a few yards of the group ... Boers , under which the working party and the outposts had to be withdrawn to the small wall and entrenchment 180 ...
... Boer field - cornet rode up in the half - light to inspect his picket . Not till he was within a few yards of the group ... Boers , under which the working party and the outposts had to be withdrawn to the small wall and entrenchment 180 ...
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Page 266 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 8 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 589 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 629 - And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 589 - Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones till I sink to the minor, — yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.
Page 354 - The valleys stand so thick with corn, that they laugh and sing.
Page 20 - Lincoln, in behalf of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England.
Page 622 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 87 - Articles aforesaid shall in no case occasion any obstacle to the measures which the Imperial Ottoman Government may think it necessary to take in order to insure by its own forces the defence of its other possessions situated on the eastern coast of the Red Sea.
Page 95 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.