The Living Age, Volume 317Living Age Company, 1923 - Literature |
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... called for the George Washington , having deter- mined to break the Conference rather than yield the full French programme , the fatal compromise of the Versailles Treaty was patched up with its loop- hole in the impossible Reparations ...
... called for the George Washington , having deter- mined to break the Conference rather than yield the full French programme , the fatal compromise of the Versailles Treaty was patched up with its loop- hole in the impossible Reparations ...
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... called revolutionary ' government , ' to endeavor to win over the regular functionaries to the revolutionary cause . As his endeavors had ended in failure , Mr. Szimonaitis had recourse to more radical measures . He set up a new ...
... called revolutionary ' government , ' to endeavor to win over the regular functionaries to the revolutionary cause . As his endeavors had ended in failure , Mr. Szimonaitis had recourse to more radical measures . He set up a new ...
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... called the master faculty . In seeking for this master faculty , we may come to under- stand how , with so many fundamental gifts in common , such gifts as in- dependence in judgment on society , a predominating concern with religious ...
... called the master faculty . In seeking for this master faculty , we may come to under- stand how , with so many fundamental gifts in common , such gifts as in- dependence in judgment on society , a predominating concern with religious ...
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... called them ' flying bridges ' and one recounts his horror as he felt the bridge swing beneath his steps as he crossed a deep chasm . In Europe people ridiculed these travelers ' tales and treated the accounts of the missionaries as ...
... called them ' flying bridges ' and one recounts his horror as he felt the bridge swing beneath his steps as he crossed a deep chasm . In Europe people ridiculed these travelers ' tales and treated the accounts of the missionaries as ...
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... called military war- party . ' ' I am in a position to prove that these articles emanate from Bis- marck . ' In exchange , Waldersee had now won a particularly favorable standing with Prince William , ' as he notes on February 2 . Then ...
... called military war- party . ' ' I am in a position to prove that these articles emanate from Bis- marck . ' In exchange , Waldersee had now won a particularly favorable standing with Prince William , ' as he notes on February 2 . Then ...
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Page 101 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.
Page 606 - But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him ; and he asked them whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves.
Page 102 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.
Page 120 - I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought What Jolly Fun.
Page 756 - ... extinguished, would quickly revive. It might dispose them not only to respect, for whole centuries together, that treaty of commerce which they had concluded with us at parting, but to favour us in war as well as in trade, and, instead of turbulent and factious subjects, to become our most faithful, affectionate, and generous allies ; and the same sort of parental affection on the one side, and filial respect on the other, might II.
Page 230 - He brings to the club sofa distinct visions of old creeds, intense images of strange thoughts : he takes to the bookish student tidings of wild Bohemia, and little traces of the demi-monde. He puts down what is good for the naughty and what is naughty for the good. Over women his easier writings exercise that imperious power which belongs to the writings of a great man of the world upon such matters. He knows women, and therefore they wish to know him.
Page 755 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Page 102 - When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 102 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 755 - A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character ot human nature. Though the state was to derive no advantage from the instruction of the inferior ranks of people, it would still deserve its attention that they should not he altogether uninstructed.