The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 243A. Constable, 1926 |
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Pàgina 18
... century ago out of the self - imposed isolation of two hundred years , was the first to resolve that , if it were forced into the rough and tumble of the modern world , it would be hammer rather than anvil ; and it has successfully ...
... century ago out of the self - imposed isolation of two hundred years , was the first to resolve that , if it were forced into the rough and tumble of the modern world , it would be hammer rather than anvil ; and it has successfully ...
Pàgina 21
... century and a - half ago , when he described the governance of India as a trust to be discharged by vesting in the British Parliament the control of the East India Company that was just then being transformed from a mere trading ...
... century and a - half ago , when he described the governance of India as a trust to be discharged by vesting in the British Parliament the control of the East India Company that was just then being transformed from a mere trading ...
Pàgina 23
... century ago was still called the Dark Continent , though white men had long since settled on the coast and even at some little distance inland . The conscience of the Western world had gradually revolted against the old slave traffic in ...
... century ago was still called the Dark Continent , though white men had long since settled on the coast and even at some little distance inland . The conscience of the Western world had gradually revolted against the old slave traffic in ...
Pàgina 28
... centuries and centuries ago by the Indians themselves and have no statutory force or sanction under British rule . Nor should it be forgotten that the resentment by Indians in India of the treatment meted out to Indians in South Africa ...
... centuries and centuries ago by the Indians themselves and have no statutory force or sanction under British rule . Nor should it be forgotten that the resentment by Indians in India of the treatment meted out to Indians in South Africa ...
Pàgina 40
... century , a completely false conception of things Chinese , and particularly of the results of the Revolution of 1911 and the establishment of the " Republic . " In the first place , thanks to the astute activities of skilful envoys and ...
... century , a completely false conception of things Chinese , and particularly of the results of the Revolution of 1911 and the establishment of the " Republic . " In the first place , thanks to the astute activities of skilful envoys and ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...