Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 16Nineteenth Century and After Limited., 1884 |
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... direct inter- vention of the British Government . Cherif Pasha and the Ministry resigned rather than yield to the bitter humiliation . It is possible that Cherif Pasha reflected upon the suave utter- ances of Lord Dufferin , and ...
... direct inter- vention of the British Government . Cherif Pasha and the Ministry resigned rather than yield to the bitter humiliation . It is possible that Cherif Pasha reflected upon the suave utter- ances of Lord Dufferin , and ...
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... direct descent upon Khartoum by the river Rahad and the Blue Nile , through a fertile country teeming with supplies . If Khartoum should be abandoned by the imperative orders of the British Government , Egypt will have abdicated her ...
... direct descent upon Khartoum by the river Rahad and the Blue Nile , through a fertile country teeming with supplies . If Khartoum should be abandoned by the imperative orders of the British Government , Egypt will have abdicated her ...
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... direct attack upon the spirit of Lord Dufferin's Report could have . been made by any British authority who was personally inexperienced in the geography of the Soudan . Without native advice or con- sultation , but in direct opposition ...
... direct attack upon the spirit of Lord Dufferin's Report could have . been made by any British authority who was personally inexperienced in the geography of the Soudan . Without native advice or con- sultation , but in direct opposition ...
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... direct mail , and we were dependent upon the arrival of sailing vessels for our letters , which sometimes arrived in batches , and occasionally we were months without any news from home . On the evening of the 24th of March , 1845 , I ...
... direct mail , and we were dependent upon the arrival of sailing vessels for our letters , which sometimes arrived in batches , and occasionally we were months without any news from home . On the evening of the 24th of March , 1845 , I ...
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... direct confirmation of this view either . We have found no need to postulate the existence of any intelligences except human minds , and human minds , not in hell or heaven , but on earth as we know them . But , nevertheless , if other ...
... direct confirmation of this view either . We have found no need to postulate the existence of any intelligences except human minds , and human minds , not in hell or heaven , but on earth as we know them . But , nevertheless , if other ...
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Page 258 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 254 - In me. thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west ; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
Page 252 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 250 - AS a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth...
Page 245 - Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will, And Will to boot, and will in over-plus ; More than enough am I, that vex thee still, To thy sweet will making addition thus. Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine ? Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine ? The sea, all water, yet receives rain still, And in abundance addeth to his store ; So thou, being rich in will, add to thy will One will of mine, to make thy...
Page 513 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 254 - But be contented : when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away, My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay : When thou reviewest this, thou dost review The very part was consecrate to thee. The earth can have but earth, which is his due ; My spirit is thine, the better part of me.
Page 261 - Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead ; You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen,) Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 754 - TWO VOICES. A STILL small voice spake unto me, "Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be? " Then to the still small voice I said; "Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made.
Page 352 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.