The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 244A. Constable, 1926 |
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... Farmer George , ' admits that , at least at one moment , " he saw the issue almost with the eyes of 1861. " George III may have been over - tenacious of his prerogative , but it was certainly not this alone that made him cling ...
... Farmer George , ' admits that , at least at one moment , " he saw the issue almost with the eyes of 1861. " George III may have been over - tenacious of his prerogative , but it was certainly not this alone that made him cling ...
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... farms , whereby the native renders certain periods of service to the owner , whether on the farm itself or as a domestic in the town house . A more or less uniform standard of wage has come to be recognised in all these forms of work ...
... farms , whereby the native renders certain periods of service to the owner , whether on the farm itself or as a domestic in the town house . A more or less uniform standard of wage has come to be recognised in all these forms of work ...
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... farmers who started in business just after the war , when prices were at their highest , have led many to take an unduly gloomy view of the prospects of farming in general . The urgent war need for increased corn production has had the ...
... farmers who started in business just after the war , when prices were at their highest , have led many to take an unduly gloomy view of the prospects of farming in general . The urgent war need for increased corn production has had the ...
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... Farmers are fond of telling one that farming is different from other trades . But some of them have rather odd views as to the directions in which the difference is to be found . For example , the representative of the Yorkshire Union ...
... Farmers are fond of telling one that farming is different from other trades . But some of them have rather odd views as to the directions in which the difference is to be found . For example , the representative of the Yorkshire Union ...
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... farming topics are now a possibility . But if the isolation of farmers teaches the need for lectures and books , the variety of soils and climatic conditions makes the lessons of books hard to apply . The conclusions reached in the ...
... farming topics are now a possibility . But if the isolation of farmers teaches the need for lectures and books , the variety of soils and climatic conditions makes the lessons of books hard to apply . The conclusions reached in the ...
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Seite 123 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move...
Seite 127 - Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings...
Seite 126 - It is six miles to the top; the road runs winding up it, commonly not six feet broad; on one hand is the rock, with woods of pine-trees hanging over head; on the other, a monstrous precipice, almost perpendicular, at the bottom of which rolls a torrent, that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have fallen from on high, and sometimes precipitating itself down vast descents with a noise like thunder, which is still made greater by the echo from the mountains on each side, concurs to...
Seite 44 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Seite 123 - Pleasures, Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing, now retreating, Now in circling troops they meet : To brisk notes in cadence beating, Glance their many-twinkling feet.
Seite 181 - To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of government to prevent much evil ; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in anything else.
Seite 125 - Come, let us sing; and directly began herself: From singing we insensibly fell to dancing, and singing in...
Seite 230 - With benevolent intentions he murdered Afzal Khan for the good of others. If thieves enter our house and we have not sufficient strength to drive them out, we should without hesitation shut them up and burn them alive.
Seite 132 - Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
Seite 126 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.