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He had refused, as he belonged to a boat just about to sail for Bergen op Zoom, and he had nodded towards a large decked boat riding in the river. Fearing to excite suspicion, he had asked no further question, but had turned to another man standing near, and asked him if he would make the voyage.
Interview with Sir Joseph Ward, New York, April 15, 1911. Winston Churchill, op. cit., p. 325. Winston Churchill, op. cit., p. 186. Winston Churchill, op. cit., pp. 240, 243. Winston Churchill, op. cit., pp. 250, 252. Lloyd George, op. cit., pp. 68-69. Winston Churchill, op. cit., p. 197. Winston Churchill, op. cit., p. 197. The Outlook, June, 1911.
To contend with any hope of success against men of this stamp, one should be imbued with qualities resembling their own. And of such a commercial equipment the business community of Great Britain have as yet shown no tokens. L'Invasione tedesca in Italia, p. 149. Op. cit., p. 150.
The orchestral accompaniment is thin. Dedicated to the Princesse Czartoryska, it was published June, 1834. The Rondo, op. 16, with an Introduction, is in great favor at the conservatories, and is neat rather than poetical, although the introduction has dramatic touches. It is to this brilliant piece, with its Weber-ish affinities, that Richard Burmeister has supplied an orchestral accompaniment.
In them the composer is free, fascinating, often bold and daring. The great Fantaisie, Op. 49, is an epic poem, much as the Barcarolle is a poem of love. The two Sonatas, not to mention an early effort in this form, are among the modern classics, which are bound to appear on the programs of every great pianist of the present, and doubtless of the future.
He dares not mention names, "not onely for fear of offence, but also for suits of Law." Scott has pictured this very well in Woodstock. See below, note 107. The witches of Aldeburgh were tried at the "sessions," N. F. Hele, op. cit., 43-44. Mother Lakeland was probably condemned by the justices of the peace; see The Lawes against Witches.
But the Nocturne in G, op. 37, No. 2, is charming. Painted with Chopin's most ethereal brush, without the cloying splendors of the one in D flat, the double sixths, fourths and thirds are magically euphonious. The second subject, I agree with Karasowski, is the most beautiful melody Chopin ever wrote. It is in true barcarolle vein; and most subtle are the shifting harmonic hues.
These words were written in 1854. Recent events have accentuated their stinging truth. Marx: "Capital." Vol. I, p. 675. Op. cit. pp, 695, 707, 709. Fabian Essays in Socialism. p. 21. Uncontrolled Breeding, By Adelyne More. p. 84. For a sympathetic treatment of modern psychological research as bearing on Communism, by two convinced Communists see "Creative Revolution," by Eden and Cedar Paul.
Roger North, op. cit., 130. At a trial at the York assizes in 1687 Sir John Reresby seems to have played about the same part that North played at Exeter. Serjeant Powell, later to be chief justice, was presiding over the case. "An old woman was condemned for a witch. Those who were more credulous in points of this nature than myself, conceived the evidence to be very strong against her.
His later repudiation of the process as an absurd and impracticable patent process "possessing neither value nor utility" may more truly represent his opinion, especially as, when he wrote his 1861 comment, he still did not know of the disappearance of his patents. The Engineer, 1861, vol. 12, p. 189. Ibid., p. 78. Mushet, op. cit.
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