The Quarterly Review, Tom 209

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William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero
John Murray, 1908
 

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Strona 527 - That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Strona 486 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Strona 376 - ... was to be admitted to lodge there, so that they might not be turned from Hospitia (inns) to Diversoria (taverns). In order to preserve the difference between a councillor at law, ' which is the principal person next unto serjeants and judges, . . . and attorneys and solicitors, which are but ministerial persons, and of an inferior nature,' no attorney or solicitor was henceforth to be admitted of any of the four Houses of Court.
Strona 177 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
Strona 157 - The receipt of an old age pension under this Act shall not deprive the pensioner of any franchise, right, or privilege, or subject him to any disability.
Strona 151 - ... years, and to all others, when they shall arrive at that age, to enable them to live in old age without wretchedness, and to go decently out of the world.
Strona 554 - ... the justices think best adapted for securing to the public any monopoly value which is represented by the difference between the value which the pi onuses will bear, in the opinion of the justices, when licensed, and the value of the same premises if they were not licensed...
Strona 369 - The students are, for the most part, young men ; here they study the nature of Original and Judicial Writs, which are the very first principles of the law : after they have made some progress here, and are more advanced in years, they are admitted into the Inns of Court, properly so called: of these there are four in number.
Strona 45 - The waters of the Nile are now utilised in an intelligent manner. Means of locomotion have been improved and extended. The soldier has acquired some pride in the uniform which he wears. He has fought as he never fought before. The sick man can be nursed in a well-managed hospital. The lunatic is no longer treated like a wild beast. The punishment awarded to the worst criminal is no longer barbarous. Lastly, the schoolmaster is abroad, with results which are as yet uncertain, but which cannot fail...
Strona 277 - be replaced by ' I am a German citizen'!" On the 18th of October 1899, his Majesty made a speech in which he said, " We are in bitter need of a strong German navy. ... If the increase demanded during the first years of my reign had not been continually refused to me in spite of my pressing entreaties and warnings, for which I have even experienced derision and ridicule, how differently should we be able to further our flourishing commerce, and our interests over sea.

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