| Pherozeshah Mehta - 1918 - 568 oldal
...continuance of the Crimean War, in the House of Commons on 23rd February 1855, John Bright said — "The angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land: You may nlmost hear the beating of his wings. " fH, E, Lady Hardinge had died in England in the preceding July.... | |
| 1920 - 578 oldal
...of seeing the capabilities and effects of long-range bombing. In the famous words of John Bright, " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of its wings." Observation, photography, control of artillery fire, bombing, direct attacks... | |
| 1920 - 598 oldal
...of seeing the capabilities and effects of long-range bombing. In the famous words of John Bright, " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of its wings." Observation, photography, control of artillery fire, bombing, direct attacks... | |
| Margot Asquith countess of Oxford and Asquith - 1922 - 372 oldal
...levity and recklessness of the Government by winding up the Maurice debate with words like these : " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of His wings. There is no one ... to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the side-posts of our... | |
| Frederick Seymour Cocks - 1920 - 302 oldal
...and I and his brother walked through the empty House of Commons. I recalled Bright's phrase : — " ' The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.' " One seemed to feel an unseen presence. The brooding silence was full of terrific... | |
| 1922 - 1492 oldal
...disposition in a speech containing the passage generally regarded as his oratorical masterpiece : ' The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings,' &c. Upon the failure of the conference at Vienna he delivered one of his longest... | |
| Margot Asquith - 1922 - 370 oldal
...words like these : " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the knd ; you may almost hear the beating of His wings. There is no one ... to sprinkle...the side-posts of our doors, that He may spare and * Col. The Hon. Aubrey Herbert. May 9th, 1918 pass on ; He takes His victims from the castle of the... | |
| Thomas Arthur Rickard - 1923 - 360 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the firstborn were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
| Lucy D. Bell - 1923 - 136 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first born was slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
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