The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 245A. Constable, 1927 |
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Pàgina 3
... difficulty prevented by his colleagues from proposing to the British commissioners the cession of Canada to the United States . He was the true and only begetter of the Monroe Doctrine , not only in its original purity as a doctrine of ...
... difficulty prevented by his colleagues from proposing to the British commissioners the cession of Canada to the United States . He was the true and only begetter of the Monroe Doctrine , not only in its original purity as a doctrine of ...
Pàgina 5
... difficulty of persuading the Americans that , if they were to maintain their imperial pretensions , they must become " more or less military , " lay in the fact that hitherto the method of writing paper had proved adequate . It proved ...
... difficulty of persuading the Americans that , if they were to maintain their imperial pretensions , they must become " more or less military , " lay in the fact that hitherto the method of writing paper had proved adequate . It proved ...
Pàgina 19
... difficulties which are strangely reminiscent of the early British efforts in the same field . Already the empire of the United States includes Puerto Rico , Hawaii , Guam , and the Virgin Islands , as well as the Philippines ; but it is ...
... difficulties which are strangely reminiscent of the early British efforts in the same field . Already the empire of the United States includes Puerto Rico , Hawaii , Guam , and the Virgin Islands , as well as the Philippines ; but it is ...
Pàgina 21
... Congress has to answer to the Filipino electorate . Under Demo- cratic administration this difficulty was not obvious , but when a Republican , with different views as to the ultimate destiny [ 1927 UNITED STATES IN THE PHILIPPINES 21.
... Congress has to answer to the Filipino electorate . Under Demo- cratic administration this difficulty was not obvious , but when a Republican , with different views as to the ultimate destiny [ 1927 UNITED STATES IN THE PHILIPPINES 21.
Pàgina 22
... difficulty is that , as a result of the different policies pursued during the last few years , the future of the islands has become a party issue in the United States ; the Republicans attack the administration of Mr. Harrison with ...
... difficulty is that , as a result of the different policies pursued during the last few years , the future of the islands has become a party issue in the United States ; the Republicans attack the administration of Mr. Harrison with ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.