The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen177A. Constable, 1893 |
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agricultural appears Arbuthnot authority Bechuana Bechuanaland Bill Britain British called Captain Mahan Caron century Church Clan-na-Gael CLXXVII colonies colour colour-blindness Commerson Court Crown Diane de Poitiers doubt Duke Emperor Empress England English Ericsson estates existing fact farmers favour fleet Fontainebleau France French give gold Government hand Henry Home Rule honour House of Commons interest Ireland Irish Irish Land League king kingdom labour Lady Mary land landlords Le Caron less letter London Lord Louis Madame Madame de Sévigné Makalaka Matabele means ment Minister Napoleon native natural naval navy never officers palace Paris Parliament Parnell party passed peasant persons Philibert Commerson pilgrims political Pope possession present produce Queen question regard reign rent royal Russia seems ships stars success tenant things tion trade Transvaal vessel whole writes Zosimus
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Página 493 - ... of the big ships before the French arsenals. Purposeless they surely seemed to many, but they saved England. The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
Página 186 - If the whole may be estimated by this specimen, which seems to be the production of Arbuthnot with a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more will not be much lamented; for the follies which the writer ridicules are so little practiced that they are not known; nor can the satire be understood but by the learned.
Página 392 - That they cannot be withheld from us, denied, or impaired, but with apparent wrong to the whole state of the realm.
Página 396 - I do see the time is at hand, the spirit is gone forth, the declaration is planted; and though great men should apostatize, yet the cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it ; and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him.
Página 392 - What cause we your poor Commons have to watch over our privileges is manifest in itself to all men. The prerogatives of princes may easily and do daily grow; the privileges of the subject are for the most part at an everlasting stand.
Página 36 - William ingeniously and ingenuously remarked, that ' even if the propeller had the power of propelling a vessel, it would be found altogether useless in practice, because the power being applied in the stern it would be absolutely impossible to make the vessel steer.
Página 173 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Página 396 - ... by the arms, inspiration, and providence of the present moment, tell us the rule by which we shall go — assert the law of Ireland — declare the liberty of the land. "I will not be answered by a public lie in the shape of an amendment ; neither, speaking for the subject's freedom, am I to hear of faction.
Página 552 - Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...