The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257John Murray, 1931 |
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Page 65
... possible to make himself a complete master of all that was known concerning it ; and should draw up a report on the subject . The chief object of the Society was as far as possible to correct the extreme ignorance of what was going on ...
... possible to make himself a complete master of all that was known concerning it ; and should draw up a report on the subject . The chief object of the Society was as far as possible to correct the extreme ignorance of what was going on ...
Page 235
... possible to distinguish such methods more definitely from our methods of criminal prosecutions . It may be possible to get away from the whole idea that civil trials are combats and to organise them as enquiries into the truth . In a ...
... possible to distinguish such methods more definitely from our methods of criminal prosecutions . It may be possible to get away from the whole idea that civil trials are combats and to organise them as enquiries into the truth . In a ...
Page 307
... possible exception of the landrail , there is no bird that takes wing more reluctantly than the woodcock . Whenever possible , he prefers the earth to the air , and it is , therefore , the more curious that so unwilling and indifferent ...
... possible exception of the landrail , there is no bird that takes wing more reluctantly than the woodcock . Whenever possible , he prefers the earth to the air , and it is , therefore , the more curious that so unwilling and indifferent ...
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