Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 205;Volumen 208W. Blackwood, 1920 |
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... stand the pressure when the ship should be pumped out ; in connecting up steam pipes all over the vessel and persuading the rusted winches to work again , in taking accurate soundings in the direction in which the ship should be taken ...
... stand the pressure when the ship should be pumped out ; in connecting up steam pipes all over the vessel and persuading the rusted winches to work again , in taking accurate soundings in the direction in which the ship should be taken ...
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... stand . Then we realised what it was . She had turned com- pletely round , and her bows were now , as near as we could see , where her stern had been before . Hurriedly we climbed over the side . The first sound that we heard as we ran ...
... stand . Then we realised what it was . She had turned com- pletely round , and her bows were now , as near as we could see , where her stern had been before . Hurriedly we climbed over the side . The first sound that we heard as we ran ...
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... stand for no one the world over but for " Judy " Elkington . Now Judy and I " " had started life at the " Shop together ; and we had met again , in Simla - days before the War , when he had been in the Intelligence Branch at Army ...
... stand for no one the world over but for " Judy " Elkington . Now Judy and I " " had started life at the " Shop together ; and we had met again , in Simla - days before the War , when he had been in the Intelligence Branch at Army ...
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... stand on this gate and watch the troops of the future passing by , not horse and foot and elephants , • but horse and foot and birds— chiefly birds , great birds sweep- ing past , with the glint of brass and steel over the gleaming ...
... stand on this gate and watch the troops of the future passing by , not horse and foot and elephants , • but horse and foot and birds— chiefly birds , great birds sweep- ing past , with the glint of brass and steel over the gleaming ...
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... silent aeroplane . The next war is going to be won in the air ; and an abso- lutely reliable silent machine with no engine to go wrong and the weight of the engine " And now we stand here with half a world 1920. ] 73 The Dreamers .
... silent aeroplane . The next war is going to be won in the air ; and an abso- lutely reliable silent machine with no engine to go wrong and the weight of the engine " And now we stand here with half a world 1920. ] 73 The Dreamers .
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Página 416 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act...
Página 180 - As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.
Página 181 - They have decided that the empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our colonial empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
Página 178 - There were days when on waking I felt I could move dynasties and governments, but that has passed away.
Página 95 - If more troops had been at hand the casualties would have been greater in proportion. It was no longer a question of merely dispersing the crowd, but one of producing a sufficient moral effect from a military point of view not only on those who were present, but more especially throughout the Punjab. There could be no question of undue severity.
Página 650 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?
Página 343 - To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.
Página 636 - ... and, having taken the administration of justice into their own hands, were not very exact in the distribution of it.
Página 412 - It may be that at some future period the Egyptians may be rendered capable of governing themselves without the presence of a foreign army in their midst, and without foreign guidance in civil and military affairs; but that period is far distant. One or more generations must, in my opinion, pass away before the question can be even usefully discussed.
Página 95 - Nobody answers this remarkable Lord Chief Justice, "Lordship, if you were to speak for six hundred years, instead of six hours, you would only prove the more to us that, unwritten if you will, but real and fundamental, anterior to all written laws and first making written laws possible, there must have been, and is, and will be, coeval with Human Society, from its first beginnings to its ultimate end, an actual Martial Law, of more validity than any other law whatever. Lordship...