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Page 228 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 326 - God ; oh ye who in eternal youth Speak with a living and creative flood This universal English, and do stand Its breathing book ; live worthy of that grand Heroic utterance — parted, yet a whole, Far, yet unsevered, — children brave and free Of the great Mother-tongue, and ye shall be Lords of an Empire wide as Shakespeare's soul, Sublime as Milton's immemorial theme, And rich as Chaucer's speech, and fair as Spenser's dream THE COMMON GRAVE.
Page 257 - my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in : but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect. We can, my dear Coll, have no little jealousies. We have only •one great object in view, that of annihilating our enemies, and getting a glorious peace for our country. No man has more confidence in another than I have in you ; and no man will...
Page 320 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Page 188 - The only possible solution of the difficulty would appear to be gradually to give the Provinces a larger measure of selfgovernment, until at last India would consist of a number of administrations autonomous in all provincial affairs, with the Government of India above * British Government in India, page 61. them all, and possessing power to interfere in case of mis-government but ordinarily restricting their functions to matters of Imperial concern.
Page 257 - When I hailed the Don, and told him, ' This is an English frigate,' and demanded his surrender, or I would fire into him, his answer was noble, and such as became the illustrious family from which he is descended — " This is a Spanish frigate, and you may begin as soon as you please.
Page 92 - ... the grotesque. But these characters, with all their variations, will go beyond their source and their ideal only as the rays of light go beyond the sun. Humanity, as it passes through phase after phase of the historical movement, may advance indefinitely in excellence; but its advance will be an indefinite approximation to the Christian Type. A divergence from that type, to whatever extent it may take place, will not be progress, but debasement and corruption. In a moral point of view, in short,...
Page 186 - that Canada must stand now as a nation. It ' will no longer do for Canada to play the part of ' a minor. It will no longer do for Canadians to ' say that they are not fully and absolutely able to ' transact their own business. We shall not be ' allowed to do this any longer by the nations of ' the world. We shall not be allowed to put ' ourselves in the position of a minor. The nations ' will say, if you can levy armies to make war you ' can attend to your own business, and we will not ' be referred...
Page 156 - In all these endeavours the school should enlist, as far as possible, the interest and co-operation of the parents and the home in a united effort to enable the children not merely to reach their full development as individuals, but also to become upright and useful members of the community in which they live, and worthy sons and daughters of the country to which they belong.
Page 50 - The accusation which may justly be brought against Austria is that her faulty statesmanship, far from tending towards a solution of the problems involved, has greatly enhanced their inherent difficulties. ' Mistakes committed in statesmanship,' Bismarck has said, ' are not always punished at once, but they always do harm in the end. The logic of history is a more exact and a more exacting accountant than is the strictest national auditing department.' The day of retribution for Austria appears to...