The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen166A. Constable, 1887 |
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... character for hardihood and courage is traceable to a much older derivation . In the first century their ancestors formed part of the great nation of the Brigantes , reputed by Tacitus to have been the most populous state in the whole ...
... character for hardihood and courage is traceable to a much older derivation . In the first century their ancestors formed part of the great nation of the Brigantes , reputed by Tacitus to have been the most populous state in the whole ...
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... character of forest lairds were to be formed from public records , they would appear more like untamed banditti than men under settled government . Yet it is certain they spent most of their time in tending flocks and cultivating their ...
... character of forest lairds were to be formed from public records , they would appear more like untamed banditti than men under settled government . Yet it is certain they spent most of their time in tending flocks and cultivating their ...
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... character , has lost sight of everything else . Such ' monstrous conceptions of the Deity ; ' such presump- ' tuous confidence concerning the motives and action of ' the Unsearchable ; ' one is tempted to question if Boston ' ever ...
... character , has lost sight of everything else . Such ' monstrous conceptions of the Deity ; ' such presump- ' tuous confidence concerning the motives and action of ' the Unsearchable ; ' one is tempted to question if Boston ' ever ...
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... character as that of Boston , Mr. Craig - Brown appears to have essayed a task somewhat beyond his capabilities . To judge of such a man with some approach to truth , we must not read our own age into him ; we must read him in the light ...
... character as that of Boston , Mr. Craig - Brown appears to have essayed a task somewhat beyond his capabilities . To judge of such a man with some approach to truth , we must not read our own age into him ; we must read him in the light ...
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... character more correctly , and did her more justice . ' Though her life was a romance , her character was prosaic . It cannot be supposed , indeed , that she was not a most uncommon woman . But her superiority consisted not in rare ...
... character more correctly , and did her more justice . ' Though her life was a romance , her character was prosaic . It cannot be supposed , indeed , that she was not a most uncommon woman . But her superiority consisted not in rare ...
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Página 151 - The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America...
Página 169 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 151 - Britain hereby declare, that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said Ship Canal; agreeing, that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 154 - Whatever highway may be constructed across the barrier dividing the two greatest maritime areas of the world must be for the world's benefit, a trust for mankind, to be removed from the chance of domination by any single power, nor become a point of invitation for hostilities or a prize for warlike ambition.
Página 166 - Her Britannic Majesty has commanded her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to declare that Her Majesty's Government cannot assent to the foregoing rules as a statement of principles of international law which were in force at the time when the claims mentioned...
Página 151 - The United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, being desirous of consolidating the relations of amity which so happily subsist between them, by setting forth and fixing in a Convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by Ship Canal, which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the River San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the Lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean, — The...
Página 151 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Página 28 - I watched his body night and day; No living creature came that way. I took his body on my back, And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat; I digged a grave, and laid him in, And happed him with the sod sae green. But think na ye my heart was sair, When I laid the moul
Página 153 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Página 161 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...