The Quarterly Review, Volume 232William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1919 |
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... experience has made us familiar with State visits , and it is easy to underestimate the importance of the step then taken . No Sovereign of this country , after succeeding to the throne , had left the British Isles since George II had ...
... experience has made us familiar with State visits , and it is easy to underestimate the importance of the step then taken . No Sovereign of this country , after succeeding to the throne , had left the British Isles since George II had ...
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... experience , enthusiastic reformers attribute to that indefinite entity called Government a constructive genius and a wealth of experience in industrial matters that they would hesitate to assign to any individual Minister . They ...
... experience , enthusiastic reformers attribute to that indefinite entity called Government a constructive genius and a wealth of experience in industrial matters that they would hesitate to assign to any individual Minister . They ...
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... experience we have gained of the potentialities and defects of the industrial woman , to make an attempt to assign to women a definite economic place in the future organisa- tion of industry . The phrase ' industry ' is used in a ...
... experience we have gained of the potentialities and defects of the industrial woman , to make an attempt to assign to women a definite economic place in the future organisa- tion of industry . The phrase ' industry ' is used in a ...
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... experience can with substantial accuracy be thus epitomised : on work involving severe physical effort , or prolonged strain , or exposure to exhausting conditions - and there was a certain amount of that work done by women under the ...
... experience can with substantial accuracy be thus epitomised : on work involving severe physical effort , or prolonged strain , or exposure to exhausting conditions - and there was a certain amount of that work done by women under the ...
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... experience . On the other hand , as against these efficiencies , women exhibited during the war certain defects . They lost rather more time than men . In some cases this was due to a series of wage advances accruing at short intervals ...
... experience . On the other hand , as against these efficiencies , women exhibited during the war certain defects . They lost rather more time than men . In some cases this was due to a series of wage advances accruing at short intervals ...
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Page 199 - Captain, if you look in the maps of the orld, I warrant you sail find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth.
Page 147 - They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Page 261 - And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required...
Page 205 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 147 - WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill : Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres. There is music in the midst of desolation And a glory that shines upon our tears.
Page 307 - She did not blame Lady Russell, she did not blame herself for having been guided by her; but she felt that were any young person, in similar circumstances, to apply to her for counsel, they would never receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good.
Page 245 - Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace.
Page 261 - Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice...
Page 308 - I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings and that my want of fortitude under them had almost led me to the grave.
Page 309 - She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.