Murray's Magazine, Volume 1J. Murray., 1887 |
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... interest , as giving a description of another dinner party at Sir H. Davy's at which Lord Byron and Madame de Stael met again . " I have just stayed in London long enough to get a sight of the last - imported lion , Mde . de Stael ; but ...
... interest , as giving a description of another dinner party at Sir H. Davy's at which Lord Byron and Madame de Stael met again . " I have just stayed in London long enough to get a sight of the last - imported lion , Mde . de Stael ; but ...
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... interest in current politics , and train up a vast number of speakers and workers . The Constitutional Union has some 500 members drawn from the educated classes , who meet periodically to discuss political questions of the day . It ...
... interest in current politics , and train up a vast number of speakers and workers . The Constitutional Union has some 500 members drawn from the educated classes , who meet periodically to discuss political questions of the day . It ...
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... interest in their local Vestries and Boards . I think , therefore , that the very difficult question of Leasehold Enfranchisement should be grappled with by Conservatives . Under the third head would be included legislation based on the ...
... interest in their local Vestries and Boards . I think , therefore , that the very difficult question of Leasehold Enfranchisement should be grappled with by Conservatives . Under the third head would be included legislation based on the ...
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... interest in laboured statistics which only prove that , if every- one had voted differently , different results would have ensued . The greatness of the Liberal disaster is best estimated , if we look at the position occupied by the ...
... interest in laboured statistics which only prove that , if every- one had voted differently , different results would have ensued . The greatness of the Liberal disaster is best estimated , if we look at the position occupied by the ...
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... interest . The Liberal party as a whole was clearly favourable to Local Control . Parliament twice affirmed the principle . Every publican in England took up arms , in self- defence , against the party which threatened to reform him ...
... interest . The Liberal party as a whole was clearly favourable to Local Control . Parliament twice affirmed the principle . Every publican in England took up arms , in self- defence , against the party which threatened to reform him ...
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Page 366 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Page 443 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 162 - I took it that most of the men in the ranks were small farmers. The whole country had been so raided by the two armies that it was doubtful whether they would be able to put in a crop to carry themselves and their families through the next winter without the aid of the horses they were then riding.
Page 161 - When I had left camp that morning I had not expected so soon the result that was then taking place and consequently was in rough garb. I was without a sword, as I usually was when on horseback on the field, and wore a soldier's blouse for a coat, with the shoulder straps of my rank to indicate to the army who I was.
Page 142 - From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.
Page 158 - This incident gave me even a more favorable \ opinion of Meade than did his great victory at Gettysburg the July before. It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.
Page 159 - ... on the map two streams which empty into the Potomac, and suggested that the army might be moved on boats and landed between the mouths of these streams. We would then have the Potomac to bring our supplies, and the tributaries would protect our flanks while we moved out. I listened respectfully, but did not suggest that the same streams would protect Lee's flanks while he was shutting us up.
Page 162 - In my rough traveling suit, the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form. But this was not a matter that I thought of until afterwards.
Page 142 - It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before ; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.
Page 162 - I remembered him perfectly, but from the difference in our rank and years (there being about sixteen years' difference in our ages) I had thought it likely that I had not attracted his attention sufficiently to be remembered by him after such a long interval. Our conversation grew so pleasant that I almost forgot the object of our meeting.