Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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Pagina 11
... mean credit for Fleet Street , and glory for the war correspondents . Fleet Street and the war correspondents are no more essential to the empire than the parasites who hope to loot our camps ; and Fleet Street and the war ...
... mean credit for Fleet Street , and glory for the war correspondents . Fleet Street and the war correspondents are no more essential to the empire than the parasites who hope to loot our camps ; and Fleet Street and the war ...
Pagina 14
... means yet known to the law ; and perhaps the method of Lord Roberts is best- send him no news , and let him employ his ingenuity in idle conjecture . Moreover , war is a dignified and serious enterprise which should be carried on with ...
... means yet known to the law ; and perhaps the method of Lord Roberts is best- send him no news , and let him employ his ingenuity in idle conjecture . Moreover , war is a dignified and serious enterprise which should be carried on with ...
Pagina 16
... means the Free of Speech . Their credulity is bounded only by their imagination : if others will not tell them falsehoods , they readily invent the lie which corresponds most closely to their aspiration . And since no censor- ship ...
... means the Free of Speech . Their credulity is bounded only by their imagination : if others will not tell them falsehoods , they readily invent the lie which corresponds most closely to their aspiration . And since no censor- ship ...
Pagina 23
... mean ? Nothing whatever . There may be a suggestion of the jealousy which a tired race feels for the race which rides upon the for- ward wave . But we don't believe it , because France is not even half - conscious of fatigue . No ; it ...
... mean ? Nothing whatever . There may be a suggestion of the jealousy which a tired race feels for the race which rides upon the for- ward wave . But we don't believe it , because France is not even half - conscious of fatigue . No ; it ...
Pagina 30
... mean gallantries , was an angel of virtue compared to the Rev. James Backhouse , B.D. , that man of intrigue whose denunciation by Porson not even Gunning is bold enough to quote . All this is changed , with glory to our university ...
... mean gallantries , was an angel of virtue compared to the Rev. James Backhouse , B.D. , that man of intrigue whose denunciation by Porson not even Gunning is bold enough to quote . All this is changed , with glory to our university ...
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Pagina 270 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Pagina 152 - Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Pagina 315 - I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and philosophy had met together. Truth and genius had embraced under the eye and with the sanction of religion.
Pagina 186 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Pagina 186 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there...
Pagina 171 - She appeared, in fact, to be awed, but not daunted, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better.
Pagina 184 - To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend this kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression.
Pagina 276 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Pagina 154 - IT was at Rome, on the 15th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju'piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to my 'mind.
Pagina 261 - There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.