The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 169A. Constable, 1889 |
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... France du Centenaire . Par Edouard Goumy . Paris : 1889 . 2. La France en 1889. Par le Comte de Chaudordy . Paris : 1889 . 3. Le Suffrage Universel et le Régime Parlementaire . Par Paul Laffitte . Paris : 1888 . · 4. Etat de la France ...
... France du Centenaire . Par Edouard Goumy . Paris : 1889 . 2. La France en 1889. Par le Comte de Chaudordy . Paris : 1889 . 3. Le Suffrage Universel et le Régime Parlementaire . Par Paul Laffitte . Paris : 1888 . · 4. Etat de la France ...
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... France ; and France has ever since been reduced to the ominous expedient of marking time by serial changes not of the personalty , but of the form , of her government . The practice is manifestly the outcome and revival of a state of ...
... France ; and France has ever since been reduced to the ominous expedient of marking time by serial changes not of the personalty , but of the form , of her government . The practice is manifestly the outcome and revival of a state of ...
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... France in the upper valley of the Irrawaddy , and by giving France large commercial interests in the country . To embarrass an opponent without exposing oneself , by taking up points well within his board , is a device familiar to ...
... France in the upper valley of the Irrawaddy , and by giving France large commercial interests in the country . To embarrass an opponent without exposing oneself , by taking up points well within his board , is a device familiar to ...
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... France ; and for various reasons the im- portance of maintaining amicable relations with China has be- come for us much greater than formerly , when our interests in that direction were purely commercial . It is therefore fortunate that ...
... France ; and for various reasons the im- portance of maintaining amicable relations with China has be- come for us much greater than formerly , when our interests in that direction were purely commercial . It is therefore fortunate that ...
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... France . In these circumstances , the view taken of our position by com- petent foreign critics is of much value to us , because it is certain not to be too favourable , and because it is not likely to underestimate our peculiar ...
... France . In these circumstances , the view taken of our position by com- petent foreign critics is of much value to us , because it is certain not to be too favourable , and because it is not likely to underestimate our peculiar ...
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Page 430 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main, why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 441 - Prophets of Nature, we to them will speak A lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how; Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells...
Page 447 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith ; Of blessed consolations in distress ; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power ; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
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Page 385 - We are told that there was no malice, and that the prisoner must have been in liquor. In liquor ! Why, he was drunk ! And yet he murdered the very man who had been drinking with him ! They had been carousing the whole night ; and yet he stabbed him ; after drinking a whole bottle of rum with him ; Good God, my Laards, if he will do this when he's drunk, what will he not do when he's sober ? " His love of children was warm-hearted and unaffected.
Page 396 - State by law established, or to point out, in order to their removal, matters which are producing, or have a tendency to produce, feelings of hatred and ill-will between classes of Her Majesty's subjects, is not a seditious intention.
Page 446 - His desperate course of tumult and of glee. That which in stealth by Nature was performed Hath Reason sanctioned ; her deliberate Voice Hath said ; be mild, and cleave to gentle things, Thy glory and thy happiness be there.
Page 382 - Stewart was one of the greatest of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended to us as that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages.
Page 440 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die ; But in the mountains did he feel his faith.