The Twentieth Century, Volum 5Nineteenth Century and After, 1879 |
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Pàgina 7
... land and water are also much needed . They should be composed in part of foreigners , and laid open , together with the soil itself , to foreign capital and enterprise , which would find additional sources of profit in forests , mines ...
... land and water are also much needed . They should be composed in part of foreigners , and laid open , together with the soil itself , to foreign capital and enterprise , which would find additional sources of profit in forests , mines ...
Pàgina 18
... land , and everything is touched with the freshness and gladness of childhood . Poor children are so easily amused , so independent , and used to ' minding ' themselves and each other , that they are not half the trouble that rich ...
... land , and everything is touched with the freshness and gladness of childhood . Poor children are so easily amused , so independent , and used to ' minding ' themselves and each other , that they are not half the trouble that rich ...
Pàgina 46
... land for twenty years , and the Septennial Act of 1716 , which still exists . As Lord Russell observes : The Revolution of 1688 which appeared merely to transfer the sovereignty over England from James to William and Mary , in actual ...
... land for twenty years , and the Septennial Act of 1716 , which still exists . As Lord Russell observes : The Revolution of 1688 which appeared merely to transfer the sovereignty over England from James to William and Mary , in actual ...
Pàgina 96
... land - in fact , that her course and fate would be at the mercy of chance . In the case of ships setting forth upon voyages across the Atlantic Ocean all this anxious caution is observed lest the guiding instru- ment to which they trust ...
... land - in fact , that her course and fate would be at the mercy of chance . In the case of ships setting forth upon voyages across the Atlantic Ocean all this anxious caution is observed lest the guiding instru- ment to which they trust ...
Pàgina 98
... land , which for a large part of India is fixed in perpetuity , while everywhere else any possible increment could accrue but slowly . The return from the customs is insignificant ; the income tax , whether wisely or not , has been ...
... land , which for a large part of India is fixed in perpetuity , while everywhere else any possible increment could accrue but slowly . The return from the customs is insignificant ; the income tax , whether wisely or not , has been ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 79 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Pàgina 558 - And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives : let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Pàgina 257 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Pàgina 726 - HIGH is our calling, Friend ! — Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
Pàgina 577 - Heat like the mouth of a hell, or a deluge of cataract skies, Stench of old offal decaying, and infinite torment of flies, Thoughts of the breezes of May blowing over an English field, Cholera, scurvy, and fever, the wound that would not be...
Pàgina 396 - Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Pàgina 576 - Now double-charge it with grape! It is charged and we fire, and they run. Praise to our Indian brothers, and let the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few...
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Pàgina 27 - I felt. that something might be attempted for my own country," of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland— something which might introduce her natives to those of the sister kingdom, in a more favourable light than they had been placed hitherto, and tend to procure sympathy for their virtues and indulgence for their foibles.
Pàgina 726 - While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be strenuous for the bright reward, And in the soul admit of no decay, Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness— Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!