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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... Hours Day and thinking of Old Age Pensions while , if his employer were to make a few addi- tional contracts , the whole trade would come out on strike in order to secure the profits . The newspapers are crying out against the iniquity ...
... Hours Day and thinking of Old Age Pensions while , if his employer were to make a few addi- tional contracts , the whole trade would come out on strike in order to secure the profits . The newspapers are crying out against the iniquity ...
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... hours of the morning , between Grosvenor Square and my own house . It came running out of the darkness and vanished ... hour before the dawn and the silence of it all ! That was sinister beyond description . ' I could give you another ...
... hours of the morning , between Grosvenor Square and my own house . It came running out of the darkness and vanished ... hour before the dawn and the silence of it all ! That was sinister beyond description . ' I could give you another ...
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... hour comes , ' said the Lady , ' I vow I'll not tell of it for you would want to make a mere story out of me ; and that I'll not endure . Neither , do I think , could my particular Spirit be captured . ' ' I should not ask to know your ...
... hour comes , ' said the Lady , ' I vow I'll not tell of it for you would want to make a mere story out of me ; and that I'll not endure . Neither , do I think , could my particular Spirit be captured . ' ' I should not ask to know your ...
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... hour of enthusiasm or in that of reaction . The caprice of current criticism may well be the despair of the creative artist . Over - praise is followed in an hour by over - blame ; and , however sincerely a worker may desire to profit ...
... hour of enthusiasm or in that of reaction . The caprice of current criticism may well be the despair of the creative artist . Over - praise is followed in an hour by over - blame ; and , however sincerely a worker may desire to profit ...
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... hour . This task , as we have said , becomes appreci- ably harder when the needs and expectations of the time change with every season . ' Hard , hard , hard is it , only not to tumble ' among such various and conflicting interests ...
... hour . This task , as we have said , becomes appreci- ably harder when the needs and expectations of the time change with every season . ' Hard , hard , hard is it , only not to tumble ' among such various and conflicting interests ...
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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...