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... seems that our generals , so far from being able to sweep the burgher levies before them , and advance victoriously ... seem excessive , for our task is to subdue , not merely a nation , but a people in arms - almost the whole Dutch ...
... seems that our generals , so far from being able to sweep the burgher levies before them , and advance victoriously ... seem excessive , for our task is to subdue , not merely a nation , but a people in arms - almost the whole Dutch ...
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... seems an unduly moderate estimate . Con- sidering the revelations we have recently had of the Boer character and fighting capacity , few people will maintain that it would be safe to leave South Africa without at least 40,000 , and ...
... seems an unduly moderate estimate . Con- sidering the revelations we have recently had of the Boer character and fighting capacity , few people will maintain that it would be safe to leave South Africa without at least 40,000 , and ...
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... seems unnecessary to propose . There would be no occasion to lock up the youthful manhood of Britain for two or three years in barracks . It would seem that an adaptation of the Swiss system would fulfil most of our requirements . In ...
... seems unnecessary to propose . There would be no occasion to lock up the youthful manhood of Britain for two or three years in barracks . It would seem that an adaptation of the Swiss system would fulfil most of our requirements . In ...
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... seems to produce only the men in the country who have a distinct leaning to the military profession ; and it would seem to be impossible to recruit more without such an increase to the pay as would put the Army in a position 30 Jan. THE ...
... seems to produce only the men in the country who have a distinct leaning to the military profession ; and it would seem to be impossible to recruit more without such an increase to the pay as would put the Army in a position 30 Jan. THE ...
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... seems to myself , and it may possibly seem to others , that if we had had three regiments of Ghoorkas in South Africa it would have been better than employing Guardsmen and Highlanders in plumes to storm kopjes and entrenchments . They ...
... seems to myself , and it may possibly seem to others , that if we had had three regiments of Ghoorkas in South Africa it would have been better than employing Guardsmen and Highlanders in plumes to storm kopjes and entrenchments . They ...
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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.