The Anglo-Saxon Review, Volume 7John Lane, 1900 - Bookbinding The covers are reproductions of rare bookbindings. Each volume has "Note on the binding ... By Cyril Davenport." |
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... causes , it has come about that many of them have been scattered abroad . They are always valuable , and of great interest ; but they are by no means uncommon . The largest and finest of these bindings are on the music - books , many of ...
... causes , it has come about that many of them have been scattered abroad . They are always valuable , and of great interest ; but they are by no means uncommon . The largest and finest of these bindings are on the music - books , many of ...
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... causes of the coolness , or at all events detachment of mind , between large sections of the two nations . In the first ... cause of misunderstanding lies in the fact that many of our public men do not visit the United States . There is ...
... causes of the coolness , or at all events detachment of mind , between large sections of the two nations . In the first ... cause of misunderstanding lies in the fact that many of our public men do not visit the United States . There is ...
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... cause of that yearning for Romance observable nowadays in every intelligent child - even as the real dulness of Medieval life must have acted , in its days , on children of a larger growth - that yearning which displays itself in ...
... cause of that yearning for Romance observable nowadays in every intelligent child - even as the real dulness of Medieval life must have acted , in its days , on children of a larger growth - that yearning which displays itself in ...
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... cause for this natural craving of ours for Romance . The beauty of the world first evoked it ; but in equal measure the very sordidness of our usual surroundings , the dulness of civilisation for passionate minds , the ugliness of the ...
... cause for this natural craving of ours for Romance . The beauty of the world first evoked it ; but in equal measure the very sordidness of our usual surroundings , the dulness of civilisation for passionate minds , the ugliness of the ...
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... cause of the literature he is supposed to serve such a critic will be very suspicious of any such facile and controvertible triumphs . Pessimism , he will remember , is never man's normal attitude ; the human spirit is always primarily ...
... cause of the literature he is supposed to serve such a critic will be very suspicious of any such facile and controvertible triumphs . Pessimism , he will remember , is never man's normal attitude ; the human spirit is always primarily ...
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Page 203 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth...
Page 196 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 191 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 192 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 203 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 197 - I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 194 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 199 - I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution if to save slavery or any minor matter I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution, all together.
Page 203 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 39 - What, you are stepping westward?" "WHAT, you are stepping westward?" — "Yea." — 'Twould be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance: Yet who would stop, or fear to advance, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? The dewy ground was dark and cold; Behind, all gloomy to behold...