The Quarterly Review, Volume 225William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1916 |
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... question of how rural Den- mark stands in relation to the rest of the world that is of most importance to him . It is the broad lessons of the policy she has adopted towards country life and industry that are of the greatest value ...
... question of how rural Den- mark stands in relation to the rest of the world that is of most importance to him . It is the broad lessons of the policy she has adopted towards country life and industry that are of the greatest value ...
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... question , the transformation of the high moor . There is no story more creditable to Holland than that of how the dank wilderness of her high moor has been made to give place to ' Fen Colonies ' with a population of 125,000 . These ...
... question , the transformation of the high moor . There is no story more creditable to Holland than that of how the dank wilderness of her high moor has been made to give place to ' Fen Colonies ' with a population of 125,000 . These ...
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... question of ownership and tenancy in Holland , Denmark and Belgium need not be embarked upon after the discussions in the issues of this Review for April and October , 1913. As it would seem that the Dutch are now determined to proceed ...
... question of ownership and tenancy in Holland , Denmark and Belgium need not be embarked upon after the discussions in the issues of this Review for April and October , 1913. As it would seem that the Dutch are now determined to proceed ...
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... question of expenditure , it is perhaps necessary to refer very briefly to the way in which it has been swollen by extravagant administration . This is admitted by leading members of the Government ; and the only excuse put forward ...
... question of expenditure , it is perhaps necessary to refer very briefly to the way in which it has been swollen by extravagant administration . This is admitted by leading members of the Government ; and the only excuse put forward ...
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... dropped to 54 at the end of September and to 42 at the end of October . The employers ' returns , which it is also Vol . 225.-No. 446 . G necessary to include because they deal with the question of AN ECONOMIC STOCKTAKING 81.
... dropped to 54 at the end of September and to 42 at the end of October . The employers ' returns , which it is also Vol . 225.-No. 446 . G necessary to include because they deal with the question of AN ECONOMIC STOCKTAKING 81.
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Page 179 - If the peace of Europe can be preserved, and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavor will be to promote some arrangement to which Germany could be a party, by which she could be assured that no aggressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately.
Page 13 - I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the north pole!
Page 273 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Page 180 - I have desired this and worked for it, as far as I could, through the last Balkan crisis, and, Germany having a corresponding object, our relations sensibly improved. The idea has hitherto been too Utopian to form the subject of definite proposals, but if this present crisis, so much more acute than any that Europe has gone through for generations, be safely passed, I am hopeful that the relief and reaction which will follow may make possible some more definite rapprochement between the Powers than...
Page 280 - The cascades seem to break through the clefts and cracks of rocks that are covered over with moss, and look as if they were piled upon one another by accident. There is an artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work, that strikes the eye very agreeably.
Page 279 - A MAN who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his writings to the world in loose tracts and single pieces. We do not expect to meet with any thing in a bulky volume, till after some heavy preamble, and several words of course to prepare the reader for what follows : nay, authors have established it as a kind of rule that a man ought to be dull...
Page 279 - On the contrary, those who publish their thoughts in distinct sheets, and as it were by piece-meal, have none of these advantages. We must immediately fall into our subject, and treat every part of it in a lively manner, or our papers are thrown by as dull and insipid...
Page 272 - The devout man does not only believe, but feels there is a Deity. He has actual sensations of him ; his experience concurs with his reason ; he sees him more and more in all his intercourses with him, and even in this life almost loses his faith in conviction.
Page 282 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Page 442 - And when the defence of the commonwealth, requireth at once the help of all that are able to bear arms, every one is obliged; because otherwise the institution of the commonwealth. which they have not the purpose, or courage to preserve, was in vain.