The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 243A. Constable, 1926 |
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... means to measure work and enterprise . Stocks , profits , credits and debts can all be expressed in the same terms , and their relative bearing and reactions one upon the other appreciated . In this connection it is essential to note ...
... means to measure work and enterprise . Stocks , profits , credits and debts can all be expressed in the same terms , and their relative bearing and reactions one upon the other appreciated . In this connection it is essential to note ...
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... means to measure and judge results ; some grounds on which praise or blame can be justly apportioned . Success or failure cannot be judged by mere general impression , and in any money - earning or money - spending activity it is ...
... means to measure and judge results ; some grounds on which praise or blame can be justly apportioned . Success or failure cannot be judged by mere general impression , and in any money - earning or money - spending activity it is ...
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... means of decentralisa- tion , recognised and exploited those qualities of initiative and enterprise that every natural healthy person may be said to possess . But unfortunately each one of our three large spending departments , the Army ...
... means of decentralisa- tion , recognised and exploited those qualities of initiative and enterprise that every natural healthy person may be said to possess . But unfortunately each one of our three large spending departments , the Army ...
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... mean spending so much and no more , this can be equally effected by either method . If , on the other hand , economy is held to mean good value for money spent , the responsible expert who understands will surely give better value than ...
... mean spending so much and no more , this can be equally effected by either method . If , on the other hand , economy is held to mean good value for money spent , the responsible expert who understands will surely give better value than ...
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... means of rigid , all - pervading regulations . Under the new system the commanding officer got the necessary information . He could see incipient tendencies and variations from month to month ; he was thus enabled to apply the ...
... means of rigid , all - pervading regulations . Under the new system the commanding officer got the necessary information . He could see incipient tendencies and variations from month to month ; he was thus enabled to apply the ...
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Seite 255 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Seite 40 - To refrain from taking advantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights or privileges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly states, and from countenancing action inimical to the security of such states.
Seite 148 - ... from the head: by chance lively; very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies...
Seite 254 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Seite 152 - ... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue.
Seite 392 - By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth ; we shine in silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted.
Seite 266 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Seite 345 - Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Seite 149 - A sly sinner, creeping along the very edges of the walks, getting behind benches : one hand in his bosom, the other held up to his chin, as if to keep it in its place : afraid of being seen, as a thief of detection. The people of fashion, if he happen to cross a walk (which he always does with precipitation) unsmiling their faces, as if they thought him in...
Seite 394 - All merchants shall have safe and secure conduct, to go out of, and to come into England, and to stay there and to pass as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and allowed customs...