The Westminster Review, Volumen162Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1904 |
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... interest in Morocco is the possibility of placing a drag on France . She will have to be dealt with . Having disposed of England , which had real interests at stake , in the command of the Straits and the maintenance of Gibraltar ...
... interest in Morocco is the possibility of placing a drag on France . She will have to be dealt with . Having disposed of England , which had real interests at stake , in the command of the Straits and the maintenance of Gibraltar ...
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... interest has each year to be met either by the direct export of goods or by remitting bills drawn on foreign countries . The movements of bullion and specie , though considerable in the case of one or two Colonies , forms a small part ...
... interest has each year to be met either by the direct export of goods or by remitting bills drawn on foreign countries . The movements of bullion and specie , though considerable in the case of one or two Colonies , forms a small part ...
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... interests . This not politic , nor in the interest of the State . There should be no room for the small class of direct taxpayers to feel that they are being unduly burdened for the benefit of the overwhelming numbers of those who ...
... interests . This not politic , nor in the interest of the State . There should be no room for the small class of direct taxpayers to feel that they are being unduly burdened for the benefit of the overwhelming numbers of those who ...
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... interest of all , so that in sanctioning any act of State the individual man , whether expressing himself in the vague sense recognised as public opinion , or by a direct vote , may consider the effect of his action as regards himself ...
... interest of all , so that in sanctioning any act of State the individual man , whether expressing himself in the vague sense recognised as public opinion , or by a direct vote , may consider the effect of his action as regards himself ...
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... interest amongst various classes in England . Probably were the evils connected with it more generally understood , the necessity of grappling with the difficulty would be fully appreciated . In a general sense I may sum up these bad ...
... interest amongst various classes in England . Probably were the evils connected with it more generally understood , the necessity of grappling with the difficulty would be fully appreciated . In a general sense I may sum up these bad ...
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Página 342 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 395 - ... merely physical efficiency" means. A family living upon the scale allowed for in this estimate must never spend a penny on railway fare or omnibus. They must never go into the country unless they walk. They must never purchase a halfpenny newspaper or spend a penny to buy a ticket for a popular concert. They must write no letters to absent children, for they cannot afford to pay the postage. They must never contribute anything to their church or chapel, or give any help to a neighbour which costs...
Página 63 - And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the .life of all that is best and noblest in English history...
Página 64 - The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed; down to modern times, no State has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus; nowhere is the fundamental truth that the welfare of the State, in the long run, depends on the uprightness of the citizen so strongly laid down.
Página 554 - Here thou to us, of charity and love, Art, as the noon-day torch ; and art, beneath, To mortal men, of hope a living spring. So mighty art thou, Lady, and so great, That he, who grace desireth, and comes not To thee for aidance, fain would have desire Fly without wings.
Página 63 - English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world. By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized...
Página 235 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate,
Página 63 - Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form ; and finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world.
Página 479 - RUST. Idler, why lie down to die * Better rub than rust. Hark ! the lark sings in the sky — ' Die when die thou must ! Day is waking, leaves are shaking, Better rub than rust.' In the grave there's sleep enough — ' Better rub than rust : Death perhaps is hunger-proof, Die when die thou must ; Men are mowing, breezes blowing, Better rub than rust.
Página 505 - Therefore when I consider and weigh in my mind all these commonwealths, which nowadays anywhere do flourish, so God help me, I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the commonwealth.