Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen204William Blackwood, 1918 |
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... waiting for her . One other ship , if not more , was caught in just the same way . The Matunga had wirelessed , not even in code , her departure , with the nature of her cargo , from Sydney to New Guinea , and she wirelessed again when ...
... waiting for her . One other ship , if not more , was caught in just the same way . The Matunga had wirelessed , not even in code , her departure , with the nature of her cargo , from Sydney to New Guinea , and she wirelessed again when ...
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... waiting and captivity . We had been saved at the eleventh hour , almost the fifty - ninth minute of it ; we were at the gates of Germany , being due at Kiel the very next day . It was 8 miraculous escape if ever there was one , and came ...
... waiting and captivity . We had been saved at the eleventh hour , almost the fifty - ninth minute of it ; we were at the gates of Germany , being due at Kiel the very next day . It was 8 miraculous escape if ever there was one , and came ...
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... waiting shell , And far away to East and North Our targets steam to meet Thy Wrath , And dare the Gates of Hell . We do not ask Thee , Lord , to - day To stay the sinking sun— But hear Thy steel - clad servants pray , And keep , O Lord ...
... waiting shell , And far away to East and North Our targets steam to meet Thy Wrath , And dare the Gates of Hell . We do not ask Thee , Lord , to - day To stay the sinking sun— But hear Thy steel - clad servants pray , And keep , O Lord ...
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... waiting for half an hour , per- haps I might diseover a box in the storeroom , " said Miss Rendall ; and she added de- murely , " beside the cham- pagne . " My only consolation was that I was making an idiot of myself in a good cause ...
... waiting for half an hour , per- haps I might diseover a box in the storeroom , " said Miss Rendall ; and she added de- murely , " beside the cham- pagne . " My only consolation was that I was making an idiot of myself in a good cause ...
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... waiting until the coast was clear , I candidly confess that I did not feel as cool as the proverbial cucumber . The really trying part of an adventure of this kind is not the strain of doing things , but the nerve - trying ordeal of waiting ...
... waiting until the coast was clear , I candidly confess that I did not feel as cool as the proverbial cucumber . The really trying part of an adventure of this kind is not the strain of doing things , but the nerve - trying ordeal of waiting ...
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Página 239 - Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery, if it is to do any good at all, is to serve; but always in machinery, as if it had a value in and for itself.
Página 51 - Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Página 691 - For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.
Página 238 - He complains with a sorrowful indignation of people who " appear to have no proper estimate of the value of the franchise "; he leads his disciples to believe — what the Englishman is always too ready to believe— that the having a vote, like the having a large family, or a large business, or large muscles, has in itself some edifying and perfecting effect upon human nature. Or else he cries out to the democracy —
Página 341 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Página 691 - For even those who come short in other ways may justly plead the valor with which they have fought for their country ; they have blotted out the evil with the good, and have benefited the state more by their public services than they have injured her by their private actions. None of these men were enervated by wealth or hesitated to resign the pleasures of life ; none of them put off the evil day in the hope, natural to poverty, that a man, though poor, may one day become rich. But, deeming that...
Página 303 - What I shall leave thee none can tell, But all shall say I wish thee well; I wish thee, Vin, before all wealth, Both bodily and ghostly health: Nor too much wealth, nor wit, come to thee; So much of either may undo thee. I wish thee learning, not for show, Enough for to instruct, and know; Not such as gentlemen require, To prate at table or at fire. I wish thee all thy mother's graces, Thy father's fortunes...
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Página 116 - But the Boy Scouts are nothing to the Government, and Mr Fisher refused to be led away by an evil example. So he gave "a satisfactory assurance that there was no desire on the part of the Government to introduce compulsory military training into continuation schools.