The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen246A. Constable, 1927 |
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... writes the words , how ironical they sound ! What proportion of the inhabitants of this country , or any country in the world , have such an interest or are aware that it exists ? And so we are driven to one of three conclusions ...
... writes the words , how ironical they sound ! What proportion of the inhabitants of this country , or any country in the world , have such an interest or are aware that it exists ? And so we are driven to one of three conclusions ...
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... writes : - In 1923 , which was a year of even higher manufacturing activity than 1919 , it required 25 per cent . fewer workers , 13 per cent . less power , and 18 per cent . less management personnel to turn out each unit of industrial ...
... writes : - In 1923 , which was a year of even higher manufacturing activity than 1919 , it required 25 per cent . fewer workers , 13 per cent . less power , and 18 per cent . less management personnel to turn out each unit of industrial ...
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... writes in his journal : " I have been reading Denham's Travels in Africa , ' and I like his account fifty times better than Barth's . He does not expect you to feel at every line what a wonderful traveller and man he is . " The ...
... writes in his journal : " I have been reading Denham's Travels in Africa , ' and I like his account fifty times better than Barth's . He does not expect you to feel at every line what a wonderful traveller and man he is . " The ...
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... write to anyone , so make my peace with all . The little fern - leaf I enclose was gathered under the shade of the tree under which I lunched when I landed to make one of my surveying stations . " It brought to him the picture of some ...
... write to anyone , so make my peace with all . The little fern - leaf I enclose was gathered under the shade of the tree under which I lunched when I landed to make one of my surveying stations . " It brought to him the picture of some ...
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... write or talk as we laugh with him , or at him , for writing and talking to - day , then he would either have disappeared nameless and unlamented , or we should possess some casual mention of him as a bestial degenerate , who lurked for ...
... write or talk as we laugh with him , or at him , for writing and talking to - day , then he would either have disappeared nameless and unlamented , or we should possess some casual mention of him as a bestial degenerate , who lurked for ...
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Página 65 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was -not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Página 9 - Newman) how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification...
Página 309 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Página 31 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Página 376 - And as abruptly and brokenly as sometimes his sentences would fall from him about divine things, it is well known they were often as texts to many fairer declarations.
Página 376 - But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others with consolation. The most awful, living, reverent frame I ever felt or beheld, I must say, was his in prayer.
Página 398 - The Commons of England assembled in Parliament, finding by too long experience that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the people of England to be continued, have thought fit to ordain and enact, and be it ordained and enacted by this present Parliament, and by the authority of the same, that from henceforth the House of Lords in Parliament shall be and is hereby wholly abolished and taken away; and that the Lords shall not from henceforth meet or sit in the said House called the Lords...
Página 318 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, 95 Here to return, and die at home at last.
Página 240 - Behind the Customs barriers new local industries were started, with no real economic foundation, which could only be kept alive in the face of competition by raising the barriers higher still. Railway rates, dictated by political considerations, have made transit and freights difficult and costly. Prices have risen, artificial dearness has been created. Production as a whole has been diminished. Credit has contracted and currencies have depreciated.
Página 68 - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair.