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... have saved to the City and to our industries many millions which might have been lost in political panics , and they have given to our business men a feeling of confidence in the maintenance of peace 4 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
... have saved to the City and to our industries many millions which might have been lost in political panics , and they have given to our business men a feeling of confidence in the maintenance of peace 4 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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men a feeling of confidence in the maintenance of peace which has induced them to enter upon fresh business . The security of Great Britain from European attack rests upon the preservation of the balance of power on the Continent ...
men a feeling of confidence in the maintenance of peace which has induced them to enter upon fresh business . The security of Great Britain from European attack rests upon the preservation of the balance of power on the Continent ...
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... feeling of dislike with which all humanity regards an alien rule . We are so convinced of the material benefits which our intervention has secured to the people of India that we resent can indeed hardly realise the idea that we can ...
... feeling of dislike with which all humanity regards an alien rule . We are so convinced of the material benefits which our intervention has secured to the people of India that we resent can indeed hardly realise the idea that we can ...
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... feeling among soldiers in this country is probably that Mr. Haldane is most anxious to do his best to make the military forces of all kinds as efficient as he can under the circumstances ; but every one knows that he is hampered by the ...
... feeling among soldiers in this country is probably that Mr. Haldane is most anxious to do his best to make the military forces of all kinds as efficient as he can under the circumstances ; but every one knows that he is hampered by the ...
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... feeling . Bernard Shaw , in whom the sense of justice is highly de- veloped , is certainly objective to a high degree . It is not even open to dispute that he endeavours to present the various aspects and various causes of one and the ...
... feeling . Bernard Shaw , in whom the sense of justice is highly de- veloped , is certainly objective to a high degree . It is not even open to dispute that he endeavours to present the various aspects and various causes of one and the ...
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Page 610 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 429 - The rod and reproof give wisdom ; but a child left to himself, bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 266 - In the most literal of senses, "the earth hath bubbles as the water hath ; and these are of them.
Page 654 - Powers, signed a declaration affirming it to be " an essential principle of the law of nations that no Power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting parties by means of an amicable arrangement.
Page 67 - We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the " superiority" of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things. Each has what the other has not: each completes the other, and is completed by the other: they are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.
Page 67 - In so far as it is not this, it is not home ; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently-minded, unknown, unloved, or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home ; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by Household Gods...
Page 482 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 67 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.
Page 617 - Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 186 - Hicky described his publication as a 'weekly political and commercial paper open to all parties but influenced by none'.