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... march over all rivals in turning to account the vast powers which steam and machinery placed at the disposal of the national industries . For many years , therefore , England became the great workshop of the world , relieved from all ...
... march over all rivals in turning to account the vast powers which steam and machinery placed at the disposal of the national industries . For many years , therefore , England became the great workshop of the world , relieved from all ...
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... March 1897. The plan was objectionable for several reasons - one alone is sufficient to condemn it . The Court of Revision would practically have to re - hear every case remitted to it , and if entrusted with power to reduce sentences ...
... March 1897. The plan was objectionable for several reasons - one alone is sufficient to condemn it . The Court of Revision would practically have to re - hear every case remitted to it , and if entrusted with power to reduce sentences ...
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... march has to be undertaken ; if you let the mare's bell hang loose and ring , you might as well let the band play , to quote Colonel Baden - Powell's vivid expression with reference to the men engaged in a nocturnal expedition being ...
... march has to be undertaken ; if you let the mare's bell hang loose and ring , you might as well let the band play , to quote Colonel Baden - Powell's vivid expression with reference to the men engaged in a nocturnal expedition being ...
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... march so as to bring them upon the enemy's flank at such a time that all three bodies may attack simultaneously . That being his decision , endless details must be arranged for its execution . The General commanding each body must ...
... march so as to bring them upon the enemy's flank at such a time that all three bodies may attack simultaneously . That being his decision , endless details must be arranged for its execution . The General commanding each body must ...
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... war is over ; the colonial contingents will sail for North America and Australasia ; the local levies will be disbanded . But we shall want 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in South Africa , if we 368 March THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
... war is over ; the colonial contingents will sail for North America and Australasia ; the local levies will be disbanded . But we shall want 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in South Africa , if we 368 March THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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Página 150 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Página 57 - Butter and honey shall he eat, That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, The land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Página 817 - MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are...
Página 79 - The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Página 144 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 66 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Página 500 - Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall approve of as just and equitable ; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms...
Página 499 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 77 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Página 504 - The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.