The Candid: Quarterly Review of Public Affairs: Political, Scientific, Social and Literary, Volume 4, Issues 7-8; Volumes 7-8Thomas Gibson Bowles F. H. Garratt., 1915 |
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Page 646 - ... the subjects of this kingdom, but that the same ought to be tried and determined in the ordinary Courts of Justice and by the ordinary course of the law.
Page 763 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 562 - I agree with you that if Dundonald will go out himself to superintend and direct the execution of his scheme, we ought to accept his offer and try his plan. If it succeeds, it will, as you say, save a great number of English and French lives; if it fails in his hands, we shall be exempt from blame, and if we come in for a small share of the ridicule, we can bear it, and the greater part will fall on him. You had best, therefore, make arrangement with him without delay, and with as much secrecy as...
Page 783 - But thus much is certain, that he that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will0; whereas those that be strongest by land 15 are many times, nevertheless, in great straits.
Page 912 - Europe, and protecting mankind ; I must think a little of myself. I am sorry for the Spaniards — I am sorry for the Greeks— I deplore the fate of the Jews ; the people of the Sandwich Islands are groaning under the most detestable tyranny ; Bagdad is oppressed ; I do not like the present state of the Delta; Thibet is not comfortable. Am I to fight for all these people? The world is bursting with sin and sorrow. Am I to be champion of the Decalogue, and to be eternally raising fleets and armies...
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Page 619 - ... employment, or of their trade unions in regard to the resumption and maintenance after the war of any rules or customs existing prior to the war.
Page 559 - For the wars are no massacres and confusions ; but they are the highest trials of right ; when princes and states, that acknowledge no superior upon earth, shall put themselves upon the justice of God for the deciding of their controversies by such success, as it shall please him to give on either side.
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Page 564 - 7th August, 1855." "Note. — The objects to be accomplished being specially stated the responsibility of their accomplishment ought to rest on those who direct their execution. "Suppose that the Malakoff and Redan are the objects to be assailed it might be judicious merely to obscure the Redan (by the smoke of coal and tar kindled in 'The Quarries'), so that it could not annoy the Mamelon, where the sulphur fire would be placed to expel the garrison from the Malakoff, which ought to have all the...