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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... true , the House of Lords is strong , as long as the bulk of the nation concurs with it . The federal structure of the United States gives to its Constitution stability of enormous strength , while it is an article inherent to the ...
... true , the House of Lords is strong , as long as the bulk of the nation concurs with it . The federal structure of the United States gives to its Constitution stability of enormous strength , while it is an article inherent to the ...
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... true news as well as new news , and to reflect average opinion as well as the wild bids for notoriety from extremists . The Boer War and Venezuela are not the only subjects about which misunderstanding has arisen through the silence or ...
... true news as well as new news , and to reflect average opinion as well as the wild bids for notoriety from extremists . The Boer War and Venezuela are not the only subjects about which misunderstanding has arisen through the silence or ...
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... true , and cable it with alacrity if only it is sensational . Since the people of England took to living in cities , the newspaper habit , like the cigarette or the habit of injecting morphia or cocaine , has increased . The influence ...
... true , and cable it with alacrity if only it is sensational . Since the people of England took to living in cities , the newspaper habit , like the cigarette or the habit of injecting morphia or cocaine , has increased . The influence ...
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... true , not otherwise - a Democratic newspaper . ' St. Paul Dispatch . You may rely upon the truth of the Dispatch news and bulletins . No fakes tolerated . ' Kansas City Journal . By the way , the war has not interfered with making ...
... true , not otherwise - a Democratic newspaper . ' St. Paul Dispatch . You may rely upon the truth of the Dispatch news and bulletins . No fakes tolerated . ' Kansas City Journal . By the way , the war has not interfered with making ...
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... true Romance , with its all - human passions , breathe in the rarefied ęther of Mysticism ; its fragrance , on the other hand , can never be set free in the murk of Realism ą outrance ; its youthful energy is also inevitably paralysed ...
... true Romance , with its all - human passions , breathe in the rarefied ęther of Mysticism ; its fragrance , on the other hand , can never be set free in the murk of Realism ą outrance ; its youthful energy is also inevitably paralysed ...
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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...