The Quarterly Review, Volume 244John Murray, 1925 |
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... possible to conceal the real effects of the labour system on the white population . The cry one knew had been for coloured labour . What one did not know at the moment was that heavy capital expenditure on mines and public works , and ...
... possible to conceal the real effects of the labour system on the white population . The cry one knew had been for coloured labour . What one did not know at the moment was that heavy capital expenditure on mines and public works , and ...
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... possible to get more of the work of South Africa done by white men , which when all is said and done is the only method by which the white race can maintain its domination and its civilisation . The result could be no more than a com ...
... possible to get more of the work of South Africa done by white men , which when all is said and done is the only method by which the white race can maintain its domination and its civilisation . The result could be no more than a com ...
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... possible road for a dying man . Storms , onslaughts , massacres , the burning of suburbs , are a soldier's daily work , and are justified by the necessity of the case , seeing that they are done in course of duty ; for burning of ...
... possible road for a dying man . Storms , onslaughts , massacres , the burning of suburbs , are a soldier's daily work , and are justified by the necessity of the case , seeing that they are done in course of duty ; for burning of ...
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... possible that a great master of Romance may be driven inwards to his own brightest visions just because those with whom he lives most intimately during his waking life are , however sweet and kindly , quite out of touch with Fairyland ...
... possible that a great master of Romance may be driven inwards to his own brightest visions just because those with whom he lives most intimately during his waking life are , however sweet and kindly , quite out of touch with Fairyland ...
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... possible effort or diligence could the owners have done the work within that period . He therefore held that the Council's claim failed , inasmuch as the notices did not specify a reasonable time , as required by the Act . But the ...
... possible effort or diligence could the owners have done the work within that period . He therefore held that the Council's claim failed , inasmuch as the notices did not specify a reasonable time , as required by the Act . But the ...
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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...
Page 291 - Returning that same evening, I got into a metaphysical argument with Wordsworth, while Coleridge was explaining the different notes of the nightingale to his sister, in which we neither of us succeeded in making ourselves perfectly clear and intelligible.
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?