The Westminster Review, Količina 157Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1902 |
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... empire to achieve . Empire is a blessing or a curse according as those who wield it are just or unjust . It is a means , not an end . The last words . of the last chapter of that firebrand , The Transvaal from Within , by which , in the ...
... empire to achieve . Empire is a blessing or a curse according as those who wield it are just or unjust . It is a means , not an end . The last words . of the last chapter of that firebrand , The Transvaal from Within , by which , in the ...
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... empire , and not the empire for them , which last has all along been the policy of our Brummagem Imperialists . He would have done what was right to his own , and this would have enabled him to morally compel the Boers to do right alike ...
... empire , and not the empire for them , which last has all along been the policy of our Brummagem Imperialists . He would have done what was right to his own , and this would have enabled him to morally compel the Boers to do right alike ...
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... Empire to its bond , that vacant cross will be occupied by you.2 They will call you traitor . Heed them not . No traitor ever yet fought for his birthright . They are the traitors . They are false to every principle of right , to every ...
... Empire to its bond , that vacant cross will be occupied by you.2 They will call you traitor . Heed them not . No traitor ever yet fought for his birthright . They are the traitors . They are false to every principle of right , to every ...
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to keep South Africa for the British Empire . The Africander people are now more really a nation than the loyal American colonists were when British injustice lost the thirteen colonies to Britain . A common injury has bound them ...
to keep South Africa for the British Empire . The Africander people are now more really a nation than the loyal American colonists were when British injustice lost the thirteen colonies to Britain . A common injury has bound them ...
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... Empire the North American Colonies , now the United States of America , and the policy at present pursued in South Africa , pointing out that , as the arrogant demand for " unconditional surrender " lost us the former , it must ...
... Empire the North American Colonies , now the United States of America , and the policy at present pursued in South Africa , pointing out that , as the arrogant demand for " unconditional surrender " lost us the former , it must ...
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Stran 366 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Stran 135 - ... they will not be subject, in respect of their persons or property, or in respect of their commerce or industry, to any taxes, whether general or local, other than those which are or may be imposed upon citizens of the said Republic.
Stran 486 - The Assistant Commissioners guarantee in the fullest manner, on the part of the British Government, to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River, the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws, without any interference on the part of the British* Government...
Stran 600 - The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by Her Alajesty the Queen.
Stran 657 - In 1678 they again resolved, in fuller language, "that all aids and supplies, and aids to His Majesty in parliament, are the sole gift of the commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids or supplies ought to begin with the commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations and qualifications of such grants, which ought not to be changed...
Stran 206 - And then, you know, my evening amusements : To draw patterns for ruffles, which I had not materials to make up ; to play Pope Joan with the curate ; to read a sermon to my aunt; or to be stuck down to an old spinet to strum my father to sleep after a fox-chase.
Stran 151 - For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.
Stran 324 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Stran 444 - Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : How can my nature longer mix with thine ? Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Stran 668 - Now the music of harmonious metrical language, the sense of difficulty overcome, and the blind association of pleasure which has been previously received from works of rhyme or metre of the same or similar construction...