Hubert Hervey, Student and Imperialist: A MemoirE. Arnold, 1899 - 151 pàgines |
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... able for his intelligent and serious appreciation of the architectural beauties of the churches he visited ; for his passionate love of wild flowers , and his lynx - eyed detection of new specimens ; and also for a certain sedateness of ...
... able for his intelligent and serious appreciation of the architectural beauties of the churches he visited ; for his passionate love of wild flowers , and his lynx - eyed detection of new specimens ; and also for a certain sedateness of ...
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... able boy , with remarkable critical faculty , while not without facility in original production . This critical faculty was combined with humour , and his rather finished grace of style made his talk ready and his answers pointed . He ...
... able boy , with remarkable critical faculty , while not without facility in original production . This critical faculty was combined with humour , and his rather finished grace of style made his talk ready and his answers pointed . He ...
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... able to speak of him . ' · Mr. Luxmoore quotes , as the solitary scrape in which Hervey was involved at Eton , an incident which reveals his boyish audacity and humour . ' It was on November 5 , and an edict had been specially issued ...
... able to speak of him . ' · Mr. Luxmoore quotes , as the solitary scrape in which Hervey was involved at Eton , an incident which reveals his boyish audacity and humour . ' It was on November 5 , and an edict had been specially issued ...
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... able to devote more time to reading . ' ... Gerald Balfour was a good deal senior to either of us . He was in our time a lecturer ; and Hubert and I both attended his lectures on the early Greek philosophers , though not , I think ΙΟ ...
... able to devote more time to reading . ' ... Gerald Balfour was a good deal senior to either of us . He was in our time a lecturer ; and Hubert and I both attended his lectures on the early Greek philosophers , though not , I think ΙΟ ...
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... able , working under these serious dis- advantages , to obtain so good a degree , illustrates alike his ability and his perseverance . His early letters have not , of course , the maturity of later ones , but are interesting ...
... able , working under these serious dis- advantages , to obtain so good a degree , illustrates alike his ability and his perseverance . His early letters have not , of course , the maturity of later ones , but are interesting ...
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Hubert Hervey, Student and Imperialist: A Memoir Earl Albert Henry George Grey Grey Visualització completa - 1899 |
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Pàgina 24 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Pàgina 56 - Probably everyone would agree that an Englishman would be right in considering his way of looking at the world and at life better than that of the Maori or...
Pàgina 58 - More especially must the difficulty caused by the absence of a generally recognised standard of justice be felt in the case of contact between civilized and uncivilized races. Is there any likelihood of the gulf between the white and the black man being bridged within any period of time that we can foresee ? Can there be any doubt that the white man must, and will, impose his superior civilization on the coloured races...
Pàgina 56 - In so far as an Englishman differs in essentials from a Swede or Belgian, he believes that he represents a more perfectly developed standard of general excellence. . . . Yes, and even those nations nearest to us in mind and sentiment — • German and Scandinavian — we regard on the whole as not so excellent as ourselves, comparing their typical characteristics with ours.