'Skeletons at the feast'. Or, The radical programme

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W.H. Allen, 1885 - Broj stranica: 32
 

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Stranica 25 - A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it ; but a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
Stranica 30 - Laocoon ardens summa decurrit ab arce ; et procul : ' o miseri, quae tanta insania, cives ? creditis avectos hostes ? aut ulla putatis dona carere dolis Danaum ? sic notus Ulixes ? aut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi, aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi ; aut aliquis latet error : equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Stranica 25 - I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Stranica 32 - Where Chineses Drive." English Student-Life at Peking. By a Student Interpreter. With Examples of Chinese Block-printing and other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. WHINYATES, Col. FA, late RHA, formerly commanding the Battery. From Corona to Sevastopol. The History of " C '' Battery, "A" Brigade, late " C " Troop, Royal Horse Artillery.
Stranica 30 - Primus ibi ante omnes magna comitante caterva Laocoon ardens summa decurrit ab arce, et procul 'O miseri, quae tanta insania, cives? Creditis avectos hostes? Aut ulla putatis dona carere dolis Danaum?
Stranica 32 - AMBUSHES AND SURPRISES: Being a description of some of the most famous instances of the leading into ambush and the surprise of armies from the time of Hannibal to the period of the Indian Mutiny.
Stranica 32 - A Dictionary of Islam : being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, together with the Technical and Theological Terms of the Muhammadan Religion.
Stranica 30 - Sic fatus validis ingentem viribus hastam 50 in latus inque feri curvam compagibus alvum contorsit. Stetit illa tremens, uteroque recusso insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae. Et si fata deum, si mens non laeva fuisset, impulerat ferro Argolicas foedare latebras, 55 Troiaque nunc staret, Priamique arx alta maneres.
Stranica 32 - The poetical Works of John Milton, edited, with notes, explanatory and philological.
Stranica 10 - In the life of a nation, as in that of an individual, there are moments when outstanding promises must be performed under peril of ruin and dishonor.

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