The Westminster Review, Volume 157Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1902 - Literature, Modern |
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brothers of a deluded people which they have cleverly managed by means of flattery ... to stand or fall ; with conscience clear ; with hand unstained by gain ... day on the two Governments . Every article will remain binding until one or ...
brothers of a deluded people which they have cleverly managed by means of flattery ... to stand or fall ; with conscience clear ; with hand unstained by gain ... day on the two Governments . Every article will remain binding until one or ...
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with an abundance of labour there will be no difficulty in cutting down ... to his requirements . ( Renewed laughter . ) Mr. Rudd , " Mr. Rhodes ' right ... day a strong Government , but there is a morbid sentimentality among a large ...
with an abundance of labour there will be no difficulty in cutting down ... to his requirements . ( Renewed laughter . ) Mr. Rudd , " Mr. Rhodes ' right ... day a strong Government , but there is a morbid sentimentality among a large ...
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would not exceed his ideal of 2d . a day . If they could make these people work , they would reduce the rate of labour in the country , ' he said in one speech ; and in another , ' It was wrong that there should be a million natives in ...
would not exceed his ideal of 2d . a day . If they could make these people work , they would reduce the rate of labour in the country , ' he said in one speech ; and in another , ' It was wrong that there should be a million natives in ...
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Of course , in any comparison between the wages of to - day and the wages paid in the fifteenth century , due allowance must be made for the change in money values . Rogers was most painstaking in his investigation of this matter ; and ...
Of course , in any comparison between the wages of to - day and the wages paid in the fifteenth century , due allowance must be made for the change in money values . Rogers was most painstaking in his investigation of this matter ; and ...
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... for ten . For ten months the under - masons got 2s . 10d . . . . In modern values . . . these sums repre- sent 488. , 408. and 348. Mr. Howell informs us that the building trades in London in 1877 had reached 7s . 1d . a day , or 428. 9d .
... for ten . For ten months the under - masons got 2s . 10d . . . . In modern values . . . these sums repre- sent 488. , 408. and 348. Mr. Howell informs us that the building trades in London in 1877 had reached 7s . 1d . a day , or 428. 9d .
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Page 366 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 135 - ... they will not be subject, in respect of their persons or property, or in respect of their commerce or industry, to any taxes, whether general or local, other than those which are or may be imposed upon citizens of the said Republic.
Page 486 - The Assistant Commissioners guarantee in the fullest manner, on the part of the British Government, to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River, the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws, without any interference on the part of the British* Government...
Page 600 - The South African Republic will conclude no treaty or engagement with any State or nation other than the Orange Free State, nor with any native tribe to the eastward or westward of the Republic, until the same has been approved by Her Alajesty the Queen.
Page 657 - In 1678 they again resolved, in fuller language, "that all aids and supplies, and aids to His Majesty in parliament, are the sole gift of the commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids or supplies ought to begin with the commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations and qualifications of such grants, which ought not to be changed...
Page 206 - And then, you know, my evening amusements : To draw patterns for ruffles, which I had not materials to make up ; to play Pope Joan with the curate ; to read a sermon to my aunt; or to be stuck down to an old spinet to strum my father to sleep after a fox-chase.
Page 151 - For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.
Page 324 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 444 - Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : How can my nature longer mix with thine ? Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Page 668 - Now the music of harmonious metrical language, the sense of difficulty overcome, and the blind association of pleasure which has been previously received from works of rhyme or metre of the same or similar construction...