The Quarterly Review, Volume 228William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1917 |
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... century that has passed since Jane Austen's death now sees her preeminence securely established . An early editor could only dare timidly to suggest that perhaps she might be found not wholly unworthy of a place in the same shelf with ...
... century that has passed since Jane Austen's death now sees her preeminence securely established . An early editor could only dare timidly to suggest that perhaps she might be found not wholly unworthy of a place in the same shelf with ...
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... century , when the minute - guns fired during Queen Victoria's funeral procession revealed the existence of a silent zone for the first time . Many subsequent explo- sions , both artificial and natural , have exhibited a similar zone ...
... century , when the minute - guns fired during Queen Victoria's funeral procession revealed the existence of a silent zone for the first time . Many subsequent explo- sions , both artificial and natural , have exhibited a similar zone ...
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... century . So great is the capacity of banks to create credit that , for the last fifty years at least , writers on Political Economy have tacitly assumed that the amount of the currency has had very little effect upon prices , since it ...
... century . So great is the capacity of banks to create credit that , for the last fifty years at least , writers on Political Economy have tacitly assumed that the amount of the currency has had very little effect upon prices , since it ...
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... century ago , a fierce campaign was conducted by the liberal and idealistic French press of that period against a Minister who , in addressing a meeting of electors , summed up his whole political plat- form in the words : Work ! Save ...
... century ago , a fierce campaign was conducted by the liberal and idealistic French press of that period against a Minister who , in addressing a meeting of electors , summed up his whole political plat- form in the words : Work ! Save ...
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... century that certain States which had hitherto shown them- selves indifferent to the progress of German power - I refer to economic power - came to the conclusion that this attitude of unconcern would end by endangering their own power ...
... century that certain States which had hitherto shown them- selves indifferent to the progress of German power - I refer to economic power - came to the conclusion that this attitude of unconcern would end by endangering their own power ...
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Page 318 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 243 - A little time that we may fill Or with such good works or such ill As loose the bonds or make them strong Wherein all manhood suffers wrong. By rose-hung river and light-foot rill There are who rest not ; who think long Till they discern as from a hill At the sun's hour of morning song, Known of souls only, and those souls free, The sacred spaces of the sea.
Page 317 - ... at least one college in each state, ' where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 247 - Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown, The just Fate gives; Whoso takes the world's life on him and his own lays down, He, dying so, lives. "Whoso bears the whole heaviness of the wronged world's weight And puts it by, It is well with him suffering, though he face man's fate; How should he die? 'Seeing death has no part in him any more, no power Upon his head; He has bought his eternity with a little hour, And is not dead.
Page 241 - Slumber and sorrow and pleasure, Vision of virtue and crime; Till consummate with conquering eyes, A soul disembodied, it rise From the body transfigured of time...
Page 401 - Government and people are under to these hardworking capable, and law-abiding aliens. They were already the miners and the traders, and in some instances the planters and the fishermen, before the white man had found his way to the Peninsula. In all the early days it was Chinese energy and industry which supplied the funds to begin the construction of roads and other public works, and to pay for all the other costs of administration.
Page 401 - ... as contractors they constructed nearly all the Government buildings, most of the roads and bridges, railways and waterworks. They brought all the capital into the country when Europeans feared to take the risk ; they were the traders and shopkeepers, and it was their steamers which first opened regular communication between the ports of the colony and the ports of the Malay States.
Page 247 - But weak is change, but strengthless time, To take the light from heaven, or climb The hills of heaven with wasting feet. Songs they can stop that earth found meet, But the stars keep their ageless rhyme ; Flowers they can slay that spring thought sweet, But the stars keep their spring sublime j Passions and pleasures can defeat, Actions and agonies control, And life and death, but not the soul.
Page 68 - The uncivilized man indeed has not many more than the brute animal; but every step in his progress upwards increases the variety of his needs together with the variety in his methods of satisfying them. He desires not merely larger quantities of the things he has been accustomed to consume, but better qualities of those things; he desires a greater choice of things, and things that will satisfy new wants growing up in him.
Page 36 - That both on the grounds of fact and of theory there is the highest degree of probability that feeble-mindedness is usually spontaneous in origin— that is, not due to influences acting on the parents — and tends strongly to be inherited.