The Quarterly Review, Volume 224William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1915 |
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Pagina 108
... Hellespont a great army , convoyed by a great navy , fighting for the possession of the land . They met with a stubborn resistance . Near the shore stood a strong castle , fortified by all the arts of the 12th century B.C .; the remains ...
... Hellespont a great army , convoyed by a great navy , fighting for the possession of the land . They met with a stubborn resistance . Near the shore stood a strong castle , fortified by all the arts of the 12th century B.C .; the remains ...
Pagina 110
... Hellespont . Geographical conditions preclude any alternative . Into this country of vast potential wealth the pro- gressive nations of the west have been pressing since the earliest dawn of history . The nations of the Black Sea area ...
... Hellespont . Geographical conditions preclude any alternative . Into this country of vast potential wealth the pro- gressive nations of the west have been pressing since the earliest dawn of history . The nations of the Black Sea area ...
Pagina 111
... how Xerxes ' wrath was aroused , how the disobedient Hellespont was scourged with three hundred strokes of the lash , and a pair of fetters let down into the water , while all the time the ' salt river ' was THE DARDANELLES 111.
... how Xerxes ' wrath was aroused , how the disobedient Hellespont was scourged with three hundred strokes of the lash , and a pair of fetters let down into the water , while all the time the ' salt river ' was THE DARDANELLES 111.
Pagina 112
... Hellespont covered with the ships , and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men , Xerxes pronounced himself a happy man , and after that he fell to weeping , saying in answer to Artabanos ' question , " Yea , for after I had ...
... Hellespont covered with the ships , and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men , Xerxes pronounced himself a happy man , and after that he fell to weeping , saying in answer to Artabanos ' question , " Yea , for after I had ...
Pagina 113
... Hellespont by telling it that it was only a ' salt river , ' he was in fact very near the scientific fact . The Hellespont is the course of a submerged river valley , and still preserves the main characteristic of its origin in the ...
... Hellespont by telling it that it was only a ' salt river , ' he was in fact very near the scientific fact . The Hellespont is the course of a submerged river valley , and still preserves the main characteristic of its origin in the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 405 - unforgettable effect with so little effort as in ' His Mate': '" Hi-diddle-diddle The cat and the fiddle." . . . I raised my head, And saw him seated on a heap of dead, Yelling the nursery-tune. Grimacing at the moon. . . . " And the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Pagina 217 - nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Pagina 218 - Hague Convention XIII of 1907: ' A neutral Government is bound to employ the means at its disposal to prevent the fitting out or arming of any vessel within its jurisdiction, which it has reason to believe is intended to cruise, or engage in hostile operations, against a Power with which
Pagina 320 - Tearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness.
Pagina 415 - what the dead have given us who gave their everything to England : ' gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Pagina 591 - be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of unarmed merchantmen, and recognise also, as all other nations do, the obligation to take the usual precaution of visit and search to ascertain whether a suspected merchantman is in fact of belligerent nationality or is in fact carrying contraband under a neutral flag.
Pagina 62 - in that he most intendeth, that it needeth not to be stood upon. It is enough to point at it; that no nation, which doth not directly profess arms, may look to have greatness fall into their mouths.' A state, therefore, ' ought to have those laws or customs, which may reach forth unto them just occasions of war.
Pagina 591 - that the Imperial Government accept as a matter of course, the rule that the lives of noncombatants, whether they be of neutral citizenship or citizens of one of the nations at war, cannot lawfully or rightfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of unarmed merchantmen,
Pagina 216 - a neutral Power is not bound to prevent the export, or transit, on behalf of either belligerent, of arms, munitions of war, or in general of anything which could be of use to an army or fleet.
Pagina 62 - Above all, for empire and greatness, it importeth most, that a nation do profess arms, as their principal honour, study, and occupation. For the things which we formerly have spoken of are but habilitations towards arms; and what is