Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 204William Blackwood, 1918 |
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magazine ARTES 1837 LIBRARY VERITAS SCIENTIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Blackwood's Front Cover.
magazine ARTES 1837 LIBRARY VERITAS SCIENTIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Blackwood's Front Cover.
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... front of it was a reeking pig - sty with three full - sized occupants . The passage to it from the saloon on the upper deck was often a perilous one in rough weather and in the dark , for there was never any light showing on board at ...
... front of it was a reeking pig - sty with three full - sized occupants . The passage to it from the saloon on the upper deck was often a perilous one in rough weather and in the dark , for there was never any light showing on board at ...
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the front line , and right in the thick of a battalion re- serve . The battalion head- quarters were only three or four hundred yards away , and to these we were led - a small square shelter of waterproof sheets . Some handshaking and ...
the front line , and right in the thick of a battalion re- serve . The battalion head- quarters were only three or four hundred yards away , and to these we were led - a small square shelter of waterproof sheets . Some handshaking and ...
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... front . All had been kept at Divisional Headquarters for several days . One pair of these , a Pilot and Observer , one of them a particularly hefty Colonial , appeared to have had heart - breaking luck . They were forced down a long way ...
... front . All had been kept at Divisional Headquarters for several days . One pair of these , a Pilot and Observer , one of them a particularly hefty Colonial , appeared to have had heart - breaking luck . They were forced down a long way ...
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... Front , gentlemen ? " he in- quired quite affably . " Yes , " said my friend , who spoke perfect German . " As a matter of fact , we are off soon to Roumania . " ( We had heard of the big German offensive against Roumania which was ...
... Front , gentlemen ? " he in- quired quite affably . " Yes , " said my friend , who spoke perfect German . " As a matter of fact , we are off soon to Roumania . " ( We had heard of the big German offensive against Roumania which was ...
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Página 240 - Here, however, I touch a theme too great for me to handle, but which will assuredly be handled by the loftiest minds, when you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past.
Página 239 - Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery, if it is to do any good at all, is to serve; but always in machinery, as if it had a value in and for itself.
Página 51 - Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Página 691 - For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
Página 238 - He complains with a sorrowful indignation of people who " appear to have no proper estimate of the value of the franchise "; he leads his disciples to believe — what the Englishman is always too ready to believe— that the having a vote, like the having a large family, or a large business, or large muscles, has in itself some edifying and perfecting effect upon human nature. Or else he cries out to the democracy —
Página 341 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Página 691 - For even those who come short in other ways may justly plead the valor with which they have fought for their country ; they have blotted out the evil with the good, and have benefited the state more by their public services than they have injured her by their private actions. None of these men were enervated by wealth or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life ; none of them put off the evil day in the hope, natural to poverty, that a man, though poor, may one day become rich. But, deeming that...
Página 303 - What I shall leave thee none can tell, But all shall say I wish thee well; I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth, Both bodily and ghostly health: Nor too much wealth, nor wit, come to thee; So much of either may undo thee. I wish thee learning, not for show, Enough for to instruct, and know; Not such as gentlemen require, To prate at table or at fire. I wish thee all thy mother's graces, Thy father's fortunes...
Página 691 - None of these men were enervated by wealth, or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life ; none of them put off the evil day in the hope, natural to poverty, that a man though poor may one day become rich. But deeming that the punishment of their enemies was sweeter than any of these things, and...
Página 116 - But the Boy Scouts are nothing to the Government, and Mr Fisher refused to be led away by an evil example. So he gave "a satisfactory assurance that there was no desire on the part of the Government to introduce compulsory military training into continuation schools.