The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 240A. Constable, 1924 |
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Seite 367 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Seite 369 - The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, GOD made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
Seite 42 - The relations of England to Europe are not the same as they were in the days of Lord Chatham or Frederick the Great. The Queen of England has become the sovereign of the most powerful of Oriental states.
Seite 307 - Arabian horse, which he could not know how to manage. I am reading an idle tale, not expecting wit or truth in it, and am very glad it is not metaphysics to puzzle my judgment, or history to mislead my opinion.
Seite 269 - The measures which the Allied and Associated Powers shall have the right to take, in case of voluntary default by Germany, and which Germany agrees not to regard as acts of war, may include economic and financial prohibitions and reprisals and in general such other measures as the respective Governments may determine to be necessary in the circumstances.
Seite 371 - When they're offered to the world in merry guise, Unpleasant truths are swallowed with a will — For he who'd make his fellow-creatures wise Should always gild the philosophic pill!
Seite 209 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Seite 156 - When vantage, five games all, the door is called, And Europe pauses, breathless and appalled, Till lo! the ball by cunning hand caressed Finds in the winning gallery a nest; These are the moments, this the bliss supreme, Which makes the artist's joy, the poet's dream. Let cricketers await the tardy sun, Break one another's shins and call it fun; Let Scotia's golfers through the affrighted land With crooked knee and glaring eye-ball stand; Let football rowdies show their straining thews, And tell...
Seite 158 - Hell through all its regions. A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. A horse misused upon the road Calls to Heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear.
Seite 282 - In the third place — -I say it without hesitation — we should regard the establishment of a naval base, or of a fortified port, in the Persian Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.