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... feeling is so strong that the Army as it stands at present is deficient in the numbers required for the defence of England when a large demand is made on it to deal with com- plications at a distance , that the question to be debated ...
... feeling is so strong that the Army as it stands at present is deficient in the numbers required for the defence of England when a large demand is made on it to deal with com- plications at a distance , that the question to be debated ...
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... feeling that at the end of a week's marching under proper conditions they would be steady and reliable soldiers . If they are to do any good , it is these conditions they must insist on , and the first of them is that they must have ...
... feeling that at the end of a week's marching under proper conditions they would be steady and reliable soldiers . If they are to do any good , it is these conditions they must insist on , and the first of them is that they must have ...
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... feeling . The Archbishop of Capetown's recent pastoral letter on the out- break of the war fairly reflects our views and opinions . But the situation , as it daily develops , is so much more real to us in South Africa than it is to you ...
... feeling . The Archbishop of Capetown's recent pastoral letter on the out- break of the war fairly reflects our views and opinions . But the situation , as it daily develops , is so much more real to us in South Africa than it is to you ...
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1881 , and the surrender to successful rebels after Majaba , fanned Dutch feeling within the Colony to fever heat . General Joubert said he was fighting for a universal Dutch Republic from the Cape to the Zambesi . The Africander Bond ...
1881 , and the surrender to successful rebels after Majaba , fanned Dutch feeling within the Colony to fever heat . General Joubert said he was fighting for a universal Dutch Republic from the Cape to the Zambesi . The Africander Bond ...
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... feeling , because the race feeling of the Boer against the British has been based on his contempt for the British army and the British flag . When respect for the British has taken the place of contempt in the mind of the average Boer ...
... feeling , because the race feeling of the Boer against the British has been based on his contempt for the British army and the British flag . When respect for the British has taken the place of contempt in the mind of the average Boer ...
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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.