The Twentieth Century, Volume 51Nineteenth Century and After, 1902 - Nineteenth century |
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... seems to have arrived when the nation should take care- ful stock of its naval position in the East - I mean in the seas of India and China and in the South Pacific . There are serious defects in that position , disquieting to the ...
... seems to have arrived when the nation should take care- ful stock of its naval position in the East - I mean in the seas of India and China and in the South Pacific . There are serious defects in that position , disquieting to the ...
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... seems , are or ought to be embodied in the party creed . An eternal principle should surely have some sort of philosophical ground , and should lead to consistent results . If one Liberal leader defends the policy condemned by another ...
... seems , are or ought to be embodied in the party creed . An eternal principle should surely have some sort of philosophical ground , and should lead to consistent results . If one Liberal leader defends the policy condemned by another ...
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... seems to have suddenly begun to ebb . This curious breach of continuity suggests a problem . We are constantly told that the old Radicalism , with its theories of laissez - faire , individualism , and so forth , is hopelessly extinct ...
... seems to have suddenly begun to ebb . This curious breach of continuity suggests a problem . We are constantly told that the old Radicalism , with its theories of laissez - faire , individualism , and so forth , is hopelessly extinct ...
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... seems to regard it as something monstrous and anomalous — a spasmodic intru- sion of Satanic power , or a pouring out of one of the apocalyptic vials . Now that it has happened , we ought to admit that it happened naturally ; that we ...
... seems to regard it as something monstrous and anomalous — a spasmodic intru- sion of Satanic power , or a pouring out of one of the apocalyptic vials . Now that it has happened , we ought to admit that it happened naturally ; that we ...
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... seems to me that he is in a difficulty which shows itself in all recent discussions . When the modern Radical denounces ' Jingoism ' I can heartily sympathise . He is attacking an evil principle , and insisting upon dangers to which no ...
... seems to me that he is in a difficulty which shows itself in all recent discussions . When the modern Radical denounces ' Jingoism ' I can heartily sympathise . He is attacking an evil principle , and insisting upon dangers to which no ...
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Page 525 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Page 310 - That in case the crown and imperial dignity of this realm shall hereafter come to any person not being a native of this kingdom of England this nation be not obliged to engage in any war for the defence of any dominions or territories which do not belong to the crown of England without the consent of Parliament.
Page 202 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 476 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church ; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith, in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 934 - ... gives him the hope that his friend will never know. Let him forsake a decent craft that he may pursue the gentilities of a profession to which nature never called him, and his religion will infallibly be the worship of blessed Chance, which he will believe in as the mighty creator of success. The evil principle deprecated in that religion, is the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind.
Page 525 - I do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 207 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 310 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
Page 257 - Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together; but let us be very strange and well-bred: let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well bred as if we were not married at all.
Page 526 - Commons do further pray that it may be enacted, that all and every person and persons that is, are or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with, the See or Church of Rome, or shall profess the popish religion, or shall marry a papist, shall be excluded and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess or enjoy the crown and government of this realm...