The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen166A. Constable, 1887 |
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... interest arising out of them would be local rather than general , and hence they may be passed over in silence . To the history of Selkirkshire between the year 1000 and the Union of the Crowns in 1603 , the author devotes six chapters ...
... interest arising out of them would be local rather than general , and hence they may be passed over in silence . To the history of Selkirkshire between the year 1000 and the Union of the Crowns in 1603 , the author devotes six chapters ...
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... interest in an historical sense beyond its own rapid phase of industrial developement ; while that of Selkirk , having been a burgh and a place of note for six hundred years , contains much , both in its history and its surround- ings ...
... interest in an historical sense beyond its own rapid phase of industrial developement ; while that of Selkirk , having been a burgh and a place of note for six hundred years , contains much , both in its history and its surround- ings ...
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... interest . The district is indeed rich in song , both ancient and modern . In Professor Veitch's volume on ' The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border , ' the subject of the Border ballads is treated at length with admirable skill ...
... interest . The district is indeed rich in song , both ancient and modern . In Professor Veitch's volume on ' The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border , ' the subject of the Border ballads is treated at length with admirable skill ...
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Or Critical Journal. interest of his work , the ballads and songs of bygone days , we feel that we are in contact with one who can handle these old blossoms of poesy with tenderness and love ; who can , so to speak , expound the beauties ...
Or Critical Journal. interest of his work , the ballads and songs of bygone days , we feel that we are in contact with one who can handle these old blossoms of poesy with tenderness and love ; who can , so to speak , expound the beauties ...
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... interest , had got caught amid the harp - strings of some unknown minstrel long ago , and the tender music it awakened there vibrates about us still . ' Late at e'en , drinking the wine , And 32 July , Ettrick Forest and the Yarrow .
... interest , had got caught amid the harp - strings of some unknown minstrel long ago , and the tender music it awakened there vibrates about us still . ' Late at e'en , drinking the wine , And 32 July , Ettrick Forest and the Yarrow .
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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...