The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 87Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 1920 |
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Allies appear attack Austria battalions battle Batum Bolsheviks Bolshevism Brigade British century Church Coalition Committee common defence Denikin doubt economic Egypt Egyptian Empire enemy England Esthonia Esthonians Europe existence experience fact fighting Finland force French front German Government grievance Guards Guild hand House human Indian industry interest Labour Party Land Army League of Nations less Liberal London Lord LXXXVII-No matter means ment métayage métayer military mind moral nationalisation never officers old-age pensioners organisation Parliament peace perhaps Petrograd political possible present principle problem question realised reason reform regard result Russian scheme Scots Guards seems Sir Douglas Sir Douglas Haig social Socialist soldiers spirit success Syrian Territorial Territorial Force things thought tion to-day troops whole Wilson women Women's Land Army Yudenich
Populaire passages
Pagina 153 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Pagina 253 - To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible, upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.
Pagina 533 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war has been issued, the High Contracting Parties deem it expedient to declare that, in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them...
Pagina 414 - 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. The Council, taking account of the geographical situation and circumstances of each State, shall formulate plans for such reduction for the consideration and action of the several Governments.
Pagina 122 - I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Pagina 128 - But hold some two days' conference with the dead ! From them I should learn somewhat I am sure I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow.
Pagina 486 - He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself ; nor be only content, but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency.
Pagina 462 - ... a double sale of their labours, first to the Stage, and after to the presse...
Pagina 533 - Animated by the desire to serve, even in this extreme case, the interests of humanity and the ever progressive needs of civilization; Thinking it important, with this object, to revise the general laws and customs of war, either with a view to defining them with greater precision or to confining them within such limits as would mitigate their severity as far as possible...
Pagina 129 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate,