Hubert Hervey, Student and Imperialist: A MemoirE. Arnold, 1899 - 151 pàgines |
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... sense of honour . Just before the examination was held for a Trinity Scholarship , young Hervey , whose success was anticipated as certain , suddenly left Cam- bridge , and only returned when the examination was concluded . His ...
... sense of honour . Just before the examination was held for a Trinity Scholarship , young Hervey , whose success was anticipated as certain , suddenly left Cam- bridge , and only returned when the examination was concluded . His ...
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... sense of honour forbade him to compete , and he quietly went away . No wonder that Mr. Oscar Browning , who was a lecturer at King's during Hervey's residence at Cambridge , writes of him that his chief characteristics were directness ...
... sense of honour forbade him to compete , and he quietly went away . No wonder that Mr. Oscar Browning , who was a lecturer at King's during Hervey's residence at Cambridge , writes of him that his chief characteristics were directness ...
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... sense , bored and somewhat offended him . But he did not , of course , take his own opinions on such matters too seriously . Nothing certainly would have surprised him more than the idea of their being solemnly recorded . Besides ...
... sense , bored and somewhat offended him . But he did not , of course , take his own opinions on such matters too seriously . Nothing certainly would have surprised him more than the idea of their being solemnly recorded . Besides ...
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... sense of humour , and a witty and caustic way of saying things ; but his quiet satirical vein was never of a sort that could give pain to anybody . It was the gentlest and tenderest nature , reserved and of few words , unresting and ...
... sense of humour , and a witty and caustic way of saying things ; but his quiet satirical vein was never of a sort that could give pain to anybody . It was the gentlest and tenderest nature , reserved and of few words , unresting and ...
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... sense of duty always seemed to me his guiding motive , and it was no doubt this feeling that chiefly led him to his early death . ' Many pleasant visits to his cousins at Ickworth , to his eldest brother at Sandringham Rectory , and to ...
... sense of duty always seemed to me his guiding motive , and it was no doubt this feeling that chiefly led him to his early death . ' Many pleasant visits to his cousins at Ickworth , to his eldest brother at Sandringham Rectory , and to ...
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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.