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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... means uncommon . The largest and finest of these bindings are on the music - books , many of which are of great size , and are fine specimens of typo- graphy and production generally . The binding copied on the present issue of the ...
... means uncommon . The largest and finest of these bindings are on the music - books , many of which are of great size , and are fine specimens of typo- graphy and production generally . The binding copied on the present issue of the ...
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... to receive punishment . Among people of rank , straitened means are so common that new men with money are permitted to pass gates that were inexorably closed to people of their stamp in former generations 12 ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
... to receive punishment . Among people of rank , straitened means are so common that new men with money are permitted to pass gates that were inexorably closed to people of their stamp in former generations 12 ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
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... means which should at least maintain the breed of men who once formed the nursery for our Navy . Our rulers did nothing of the kind . Our merchant fleet is decadent ; and if it is not so far gone as our agriculture , the time is not far ...
... means which should at least maintain the breed of men who once formed the nursery for our Navy . Our rulers did nothing of the kind . Our merchant fleet is decadent ; and if it is not so far gone as our agriculture , the time is not far ...
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... means mobilisation for the campaign that is to end in Armageddon . If Britain were to go under and her Colonies were to be divided among the tariff - loving Powers , American interests would receive scant favour or regard ; but even so ...
... means mobilisation for the campaign that is to end in Armageddon . If Britain were to go under and her Colonies were to be divided among the tariff - loving Powers , American interests would receive scant favour or regard ; but even so ...
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... mean that Romance must always be a tale of fierceness ? I , myself , do not think so . It may be difficult to explain what is Romance in literature ; but we know full well what it is not . Take any imaginary book ; let it be labelled ...
... mean that Romance must always be a tale of fierceness ? I , myself , do not think so . It may be difficult to explain what is Romance in literature ; but we know full well what it is not . Take any imaginary book ; let it be labelled ...
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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...