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... Light Division which did such admirable work under Wellington throughout the Peninsular War.2 As Sir Frederick Maurice has told us in his interesting book , The Diary of Sir John Moore , ' that officer's object was not so much to devise ...
... Light Division which did such admirable work under Wellington throughout the Peninsular War.2 As Sir Frederick Maurice has told us in his interesting book , The Diary of Sir John Moore , ' that officer's object was not so much to devise ...
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... light on our imper- fections , and has made it clear that much is still needed before we can have an Army fit in all respects for war under modern conditions . Owing to the introduction of rifled arms and smokeless powder , war is daily ...
... light on our imper- fections , and has made it clear that much is still needed before we can have an Army fit in all respects for war under modern conditions . Owing to the introduction of rifled arms and smokeless powder , war is daily ...
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... light of the typical case , Bannatyne and Others v . Overtoun and Others - to be the disinherited remnant of the Free Church as it existed prior to 1900. The decision was at once assailed with a virulence that consorted ill with the ...
... light of the typical case , Bannatyne and Others v . Overtoun and Others - to be the disinherited remnant of the Free Church as it existed prior to 1900. The decision was at once assailed with a virulence that consorted ill with the ...
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... had given an impulse to their intellectual activity to which they were not slow to respond . The old beliefs were rigorously scrutinised , the old canons of doctrine sifted and restated in the light of 62 Jan THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
... had given an impulse to their intellectual activity to which they were not slow to respond . The old beliefs were rigorously scrutinised , the old canons of doctrine sifted and restated in the light of 62 Jan THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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canons of doctrine sifted and restated in the light of experience . The critical methods which Sir George Lewis had applied to civil history were now , for the first time , applied to that of religion . Broader views and scientific ...
canons of doctrine sifted and restated in the light of experience . The critical methods which Sir George Lewis had applied to civil history were now , for the first time , applied to that of religion . Broader views and scientific ...
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Page 400 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 365 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Page 503 - I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Page 53 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
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Page 53 - ... or the greater part of them, shall take order from time to time, by and with the consent of two or more such Justices of Peace as is aforesaid...
Page 75 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also **. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Page 365 - It is but too true, that the love, and even the very idea, of genuine liberty is extremely rare. It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence. They feel themselves in a state of thraldom, they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man or some body of men dependent on their mercy.
Page 366 - Protestant cobbler, debased by his poverty, but exalted by his share of the ruling church, feels a pride in knowing it is by his generosity alone that the peer whose footman's instep he measures is able to keep his chaplain from a jail.
Page 500 - In case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified twelve months before the expiration of the said ten years the intention of terminating it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the high contracting parties...