Littell's Living Age, Volume 335Living Age Company Incorporated, 1929 |
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... famous line , ' What do they know of London who only London know ? ' And as concerns London , this is probably truer than it would be of any other European city . For there is not one London but dozens . So extensively has the city ...
... famous line , ' What do they know of London who only London know ? ' And as concerns London , this is probably truer than it would be of any other European city . For there is not one London but dozens . So extensively has the city ...
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... famous Hill , and found our- selves in the little twin vil- lages of Ham and Petersham . In the former we would visit one of England's most beau- tiful great mansions - the Ham House of innumerable associations . That red - brick pile ...
... famous Hill , and found our- selves in the little twin vil- lages of Ham and Petersham . In the former we would visit one of England's most beau- tiful great mansions - the Ham House of innumerable associations . That red - brick pile ...
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... famous Watteau and one version of Reynolds's ' Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse , ' you can wander about the charming lanes and hope to meet Mr. George Moore's Evelyn Innes , who is inseparably con- nected with the spot . Greater London ...
... famous Watteau and one version of Reynolds's ' Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse , ' you can wander about the charming lanes and hope to meet Mr. George Moore's Evelyn Innes , who is inseparably con- nected with the spot . Greater London ...
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... famous statesman had foreseen the remote consequences of the wound which would remain open in the side of the great neighboring nation . But the strategists were more powerful than the statesman ; they were inexorable . It was a ...
... famous statesman had foreseen the remote consequences of the wound which would remain open in the side of the great neighboring nation . But the strategists were more powerful than the statesman ; they were inexorable . It was a ...
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... famous English military critic we see Italy train- ing her troops with clear vision for the actualities of war , employing methods and equipment in some respects unequaled by any other nation of the earth . Mussolini believes in a ...
... famous English military critic we see Italy train- ing her troops with clear vision for the actualities of war , employing methods and equipment in some respects unequaled by any other nation of the earth . Mussolini believes in a ...
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Page 60 - The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Page 301 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 60 - I should remind your excellency that there are certain regions of the world the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety. His Majesty's Government have been at pains to make it clear in the past that interference with these regions cannot be suffered. Their protection against attack is to the British Empire a measure of self-defence.
Page 213 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations.
Page 233 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page 78 - EDITOR'S PREFACE IN the autumn of 1914 when the scientific study of the effects of war upon modern life passed suddenly from theory to history, the Division of Economics and History of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace proposed to adjust the programme of its researches to the new and altered problems which the War presented. The existing programme, which had been prepared as the result of...
Page 97 - In short, such is the difference of character, of manners, of religion, of interest, of the different colonies, that I think, if I am not wholly ignorant of the human mind, were they left to themselves, there would soon be a civil war from one end of the continent to the other; while the Indians and negroes would, with better reason, impatiently watch the opportunity of exterminating them all together.
Page 410 - Parliament, that the king's royal assent, by his letters patent under his great seal and assigned with his hand, and declared and notified in his absence to the Lords spiritual and temporal, and to the Commons, assembled together...
Page 101 - We the Ladys of Edenton do hereby solemnly engage not to conform to that Pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys will not promote ye wear of any manufacture from England, until such time that all Acts which tend to enslave this our Native Country shall be repealed.
Page 402 - There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned home the previous night.