The Living Age, Volume 317Living Age Company, 1923 - Literature |
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... look at this institution in operation , and at the elements that dominate in it , we must recognize it as a marvelous piece of political ma- chinery that aids the Anglo - Saxons in their exercise of world domination . The rôle of the ...
... look at this institution in operation , and at the elements that dominate in it , we must recognize it as a marvelous piece of political ma- chinery that aids the Anglo - Saxons in their exercise of world domination . The rôle of the ...
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... looks not only to the complete execution of the Treaty of the Trianon , but of the Treaty of Neuilly as well . The English ... look out for that even- tuality . In all probability we shall be between the hammer and the anvil , as we have ...
... looks not only to the complete execution of the Treaty of the Trianon , but of the Treaty of Neuilly as well . The English ... look out for that even- tuality . In all probability we shall be between the hammer and the anvil , as we have ...
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... look with contempt on the teachings of the past . The little essay that I am writing here is designed to show those people who are wholly occupied with their own century that some rein is needed in their beatific admiration of modernity ...
... look with contempt on the teachings of the past . The little essay that I am writing here is designed to show those people who are wholly occupied with their own century that some rein is needed in their beatific admiration of modernity ...
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... look at the matter purely as a soldier , and do what I was told . ' Alas for hopes , alas for scheming ! Not alone ... looks now as if the Kaiser had chosen Caprivi . ' Tableau ! --- Very shortly afterward , on March 21 , the journal ...
... look at the matter purely as a soldier , and do what I was told . ' Alas for hopes , alas for scheming ! Not alone ... looks now as if the Kaiser had chosen Caprivi . ' Tableau ! --- Very shortly afterward , on March 21 , the journal ...
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... are smelling danger , old man , eh ? Perhaps death ? Now don't be a child all your life ! Why be afraid ? Maybe you had a bad dream . Now look here that night before the battle at Zborovo I dreamed that 52 THE LIVING AGE.
... are smelling danger , old man , eh ? Perhaps death ? Now don't be a child all your life ! Why be afraid ? Maybe you had a bad dream . Now look here that night before the battle at Zborovo I dreamed that 52 THE LIVING AGE.
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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.