The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 |
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... centuries . Were South Africa a rich agricultural country it might even now become the heritage of the white race merely by natural progress . But its tem- porary wealth in gold and diamonds has given a wrong impression of its true ...
... centuries . Were South Africa a rich agricultural country it might even now become the heritage of the white race merely by natural progress . But its tem- porary wealth in gold and diamonds has given a wrong impression of its true ...
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... century , white men labouring on a dam for 1s . 7d . a day , while neighbouring coloured men earned 4s . 6d . a day at wool - washing ; the white men , he noted , ' wouldn't have trod the wool along with the black man even for 4s . 6d ...
... century , white men labouring on a dam for 1s . 7d . a day , while neighbouring coloured men earned 4s . 6d . a day at wool - washing ; the white men , he noted , ' wouldn't have trod the wool along with the black man even for 4s . 6d ...
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... century onwards . Indeed , when the political tumult died down , it became increasingly plain that the real South African problem not only remained unsolved but had become more difficult of solution . The rapid economic develop- ment of ...
... century onwards . Indeed , when the political tumult died down , it became increasingly plain that the real South African problem not only remained unsolved but had become more difficult of solution . The rapid economic develop- ment of ...
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... century old , ' strikes ' were known before the close of the 17th century . Sir Walter suffered in 1803 from a strike of printers ' devils and paper- makers , and humorously suggested to Miss Seward the notion that authors should strike ...
... century old , ' strikes ' were known before the close of the 17th century . Sir Walter suffered in 1803 from a strike of printers ' devils and paper- makers , and humorously suggested to Miss Seward the notion that authors should strike ...
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... elections late in the last century , the most popular election speech he heard was from a man * Lockhart , chap . lvi , p . 477 . + Ibid , chap , xli , p . 370 . who climbed up a lamp - post , waved his SIR WALTER SCOTT 33 .
... elections late in the last century , the most popular election speech he heard was from a man * Lockhart , chap . lvi , p . 477 . + Ibid , chap , xli , p . 370 . who climbed up a lamp - post , waved his SIR WALTER SCOTT 33 .
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Page 212 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater; and deliver'd upon the mellowing of occasion: But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.
Page 295 - Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain. And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain; And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all, Commune with thee had opened out — but flowers Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
Page 288 - This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance even when age Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness! They, meanwhile, Friends, whom I never more may meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge...
Page 289 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Page 295 - Thou in bewitching words, with happy heart, Didst chaunt the vision of that Ancient Man, The bright-eyed Mariner, and rueful woes Didst utter of the Lady Christabel...
Page 289 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
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Page 59 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 286 - O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Page 286 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd. That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze. At once the Soul of each, and God of all?