The Westminster Review, Količina 157Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1902 |
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Stran 3
... Raid for financial purposes , and who merely used persons like Rhodes and Jameson to pick out chestnuts for them ; he would , I say , have compelled these exalted personages , who stood so high that the South Africa Committee cringed ...
... Raid for financial purposes , and who merely used persons like Rhodes and Jameson to pick out chestnuts for them ; he would , I say , have compelled these exalted personages , who stood so high that the South Africa Committee cringed ...
Stran 10
... Jameson Raid ] the British Government was firmly resolved to invade both Republics ; but only lately it was acknowledged by Lord Lansdowne that he had , as early as June 1899 , discussed with Lord Wolseley , then Com- mander - in ...
... Jameson Raid ] the British Government was firmly resolved to invade both Republics ; but only lately it was acknowledged by Lord Lansdowne that he had , as early as June 1899 , discussed with Lord Wolseley , then Com- mander - in ...
Stran 17
... Jameson Raid was engineered , Mr. Rhodes financing the adventure to the tune of some £ 200,000 , while a forged letter alleging that the women and children of Johannesburg were in grave danger from the Boers , supplied the " motive ...
... Jameson Raid was engineered , Mr. Rhodes financing the adventure to the tune of some £ 200,000 , while a forged letter alleging that the women and children of Johannesburg were in grave danger from the Boers , supplied the " motive ...
Stran 343
... Jameson Raid , praises its inception , and places it on the same footing as the war . The two cannot be compared . The Jameson Raid was a crime as well as a political mistake . To Sir William's whole - hearted admiration for Mr ...
... Jameson Raid , praises its inception , and places it on the same footing as the war . The two cannot be compared . The Jameson Raid was a crime as well as a political mistake . To Sir William's whole - hearted admiration for Mr ...
Stran 385
... Jameson raid , they were in the most unprepared state possible , and only then began to prepare for what was obviously coming . It is a lie to say that the Boers obtained their land by killing off and hunting out the natives . And it is ...
... Jameson raid , they were in the most unprepared state possible , and only then began to prepare for what was obviously coming . It is a lie to say that the Boers obtained their land by killing off and hunting out the natives . And it is ...
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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...