The Westminster Review, Band 181

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1914
 

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Seite 67 - ... nor the Indian hounds which followed the army, be calculated, by reason of their multitude. Hence I am not at all surprised that the water of the rivers was found too scant for the army in some instances; rather it is a marvel to me how the provisions did not fail, when the numbers were so great.
Seite 68 - Southwark, with a band of desperate characters, and that, planting themselves in ambush on Shooters' Hill, or taking other positions favourable for attack and escape, they stopped travellers, and took from them not only their money, but any valuable commodities which they carried with them...
Seite 77 - I think I never felt so much as in this matter the enormous power which the Times has, not from the quality of its writing, which of late has been rather poor, but from its exclusive command of publicity and its exclusive access to a vast number of minds. The ignorance in which it has been able to keep a great part of the public is astounding.
Seite 79 - In the end my client was acquitted [says the same great advocate, relating a story of atrocious murder] ; and that same night, after drinking heavily, he passed down the High Street of the town, and, holding out his hand, he exclaimed, ' My counsel got me off, but this is the hand that did the deed.
Seite 114 - THE following pages have been written to give an introductory account of the conditions under which practical ideals have been formed, and of the forces which have produced the most prominent theories.
Seite 4 - ... impossible to fight Home Rule successfully so long as it is contended or admitted that the Romanists and other open enemies of the true religion ought to have political power. We regard the so-called Catholic Emancipation Act as the first "plague spot
Seite 70 - ... prologue ; it is an epilogue. These books — ' book ' is rather too grand a name for some of them — are the product of a very strange, and perhaps we might say a unique, state of affairs. The conquering Frenchmen have no written laws, or none to speak of, and they have no law-books of their own. The conquered Englishmen have a considerable mass of written laws ending with the code of Cnut. The official theory tells of unbroken continuity. William has inherited the crown from his cousin, and,...

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