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... position . X. Possibly . Y. If so , my contention is that it is worth while to consider , as we look at this little point in the almanack , whether it may not signalise new thoughts - or rather new - old - of our position and out- look ...
... position . X. Possibly . Y. If so , my contention is that it is worth while to consider , as we look at this little point in the almanack , whether it may not signalise new thoughts - or rather new - old - of our position and out- look ...
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... position ought to be made . I hoped that the next debate on the Navy Estimates would produce such a declaration . On the 3rd of May the First Lord said that no experiments in submarine boats had yet been made by our own authorities ...
... position ought to be made . I hoped that the next debate on the Navy Estimates would produce such a declaration . On the 3rd of May the First Lord said that no experiments in submarine boats had yet been made by our own authorities ...
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... position , and that whoever held that commanding height held the road to Ladysmith . An assault on this hill was ... positions . General Warren , accompanied by some of his staff , reconnoitred the route from the side of Trichardt's ...
... position , and that whoever held that commanding height held the road to Ladysmith . An assault on this hill was ... positions . General Warren , accompanied by some of his staff , reconnoitred the route from the side of Trichardt's ...
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... 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 for any army con- templating offensive tactics , would be the pivot on which a ...
... 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 for any army con- templating offensive tactics , would be the pivot on which a ...
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... position in the limited time before daylight . The trench as it was when dawn broke measured from end to end about 200 yards , and towards its western end was slightly bent into an obtuse angle . It was facing what was thought to be the ...
... position in the limited time before daylight . The trench as it was when dawn broke measured from end to end about 200 yards , and towards its western end was slightly bent into an obtuse angle . It was facing what was thought to be the ...
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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.