The Independent Review, Volume 2T.F. Unwin, 1904 |
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... Amery . . CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SECOND VOLUME INDEPENDENT VOL . II . NO . REVIEW ! CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Fyvie . 572 255 · 337 Cause and Cure • 72 sation . 497 Russell 328 Meredith , H. O. , Retaliation 416 REVIEWS - continued . Public ...
... Amery . . CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SECOND VOLUME INDEPENDENT VOL . II . NO . REVIEW ! CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Fyvie . 572 255 · 337 Cause and Cure • 72 sation . 497 Russell 328 Meredith , H. O. , Retaliation 416 REVIEWS - continued . Public ...
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... Amery has gone to the root of that most complex of all subjects , Army Reform . Many writers and correspondents , even before the publication of the Report of the War Commissioners , had fearlessly laid bare the blunders of the late war ...
... Amery has gone to the root of that most complex of all subjects , Army Reform . Many writers and correspondents , even before the publication of the Report of the War Commissioners , had fearlessly laid bare the blunders of the late war ...
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... Amery's definition of our strategical front , which he lays down in no doubtful way , by drawing a straight line on the map from South Africa to the north - east corner of Siberia . Examining in detail the countries through which this ...
... Amery's definition of our strategical front , which he lays down in no doubtful way , by drawing a straight line on the map from South Africa to the north - east corner of Siberia . Examining in detail the countries through which this ...
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... Amery so wisely insists . In dealing with the reforms introduced by Mr. Brodrick , Mr. Amery's criticism , when compared with that of Mr. Winston Churchill , is almost eulogistic . He says , for instance : " The motives which inspired ...
... Amery so wisely insists . In dealing with the reforms introduced by Mr. Brodrick , Mr. Amery's criticism , when compared with that of Mr. Winston Churchill , is almost eulogistic . He says , for instance : " The motives which inspired ...
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The question of Home Defence plays an important part in Mr. Amery's scheme ; and the chapter which discusses it is one ... Amery , while admitting that a continental conscription would be impossible for us , is of opinion that all young ...
The question of Home Defence plays an important part in Mr. Amery's scheme ; and the chapter which discusses it is one ... Amery , while admitting that a continental conscription would be impossible for us , is of opinion that all young ...
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Page 642 - Pray send me no more such laurels, which I desire no more than their leaves when decked with a scrap of tinsel and stuck on twelfthcakes that lie on the shop-boards of pastry-cooks at Christmas. I shall be quite content with a sprig of rosemary thrown after me, when the parson of the parish commits my dust to dust.
Page 517 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Page 484 - Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope. Upon Saint Crispin's Day...
Page 626 - Brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed: thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee too lay a God-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour: and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on : thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may ; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for...
Page 365 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 643 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable : I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 376 - It teaches that men ought to be in arms even against a remote and constructive danger to their freedom ; that even if the cloud is no bigger than a man's hand, it is their right and duty to stake the national existence, to sacrifice lives and fortunes, to cover the country with a lake of blood, to shatter crowns and sceptres and fling parliaments into the sea.
Page 377 - A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
Page 484 - Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But, putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry...