The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 245A. Constable, 1927 |
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... considerable stress upon the importance of a knowledge of the way in which other nations are handling the problems created by the possession of an overseas empire , and in particular of their treatment of those whom an earlier ...
... considerable stress upon the importance of a knowledge of the way in which other nations are handling the problems created by the possession of an overseas empire , and in particular of their treatment of those whom an earlier ...
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... considerably increased the power of the Governor - General , who now had a right of veto on the acts of the Filipino Congress ... considerable difference in the United States a deadlock between President and Congress cannot continue in ...
... considerably increased the power of the Governor - General , who now had a right of veto on the acts of the Filipino Congress ... considerable difference in the United States a deadlock between President and Congress cannot continue in ...
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... considerable . Miss Mayo contends that education had been neglected , and points out that 34 per cent . of the population is illiterate ; to this Mr. Russell replies that the percentage for the State of Louisiana is 29 , and that a ...
... considerable . Miss Mayo contends that education had been neglected , and points out that 34 per cent . of the population is illiterate ; to this Mr. Russell replies that the percentage for the State of Louisiana is 29 , and that a ...
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... considerable diminution of the prestige of the United States throughout the Far East . The opponents of this theory either assert , as does Mr. Harrison , that the acquisition of Korea and Formosa has not been such a success as to ...
... considerable diminution of the prestige of the United States throughout the Far East . The opponents of this theory either assert , as does Mr. Harrison , that the acquisition of Korea and Formosa has not been such a success as to ...
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... considerable power of assimilating European ways . They have had very little formal education , though they are keen to make use of what chances they can get ; they have learnt chiefly by working under the direction of white men . The ...
... considerable power of assimilating European ways . They have had very little formal education , though they are keen to make use of what chances they can get ; they have learnt chiefly by working under the direction of white men . The ...
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Seite 225 - BOOK The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. The Book of 1662 with Permissive Additions and Deviations approved in 1927.
Seite 1 - which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from potentate to potentate as if they were property.
Seite 3 - to-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Seite 246 - never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxims that govern your own life, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict upon
Seite 347 - The ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilisation to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing point ? Is not every civilisation bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses ? The
Seite 273 - Thin, thin, the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts—marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams ; Alone the sun rises, and alone Spring the great streams.
Seite 110 - are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one : style is a thinking out into language. . . . When we can separate light and illumination, life and motion, the convex and the concave of a curve, then will it be possible for thought to tread speech under foot, and
Seite 293 - a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant rings outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders.
Seite 223 - that it was no part of the policy of His Majesty's government in Great Britain that questions affecting judicial appeals should be determined otherwise than in accordance with the wishes of the part of the empire primarily affected.
Seite 174 - it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. Now, if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral.