The Westminster Review, Volume 162Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1904 - Literature, Modern |
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... called " the most faithful city , " had been a German port as much as Hamburg or Danzig , or as Liverpool and Cork are ports of this country . An enemy of Germany , and a panegyrist of Napoleonism , as Dr. Reich is , he raises the ...
... called " the most faithful city , " had been a German port as much as Hamburg or Danzig , or as Liverpool and Cork are ports of this country . An enemy of Germany , and a panegyrist of Napoleonism , as Dr. Reich is , he raises the ...
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... called would - be world - rulere , Dr. Reich declares that it is the ambition of the Germans , " by the development of their naval strength , to carry their sphere of influence over the whole globe " ; nay , that " Germany's almost only ...
... called would - be world - rulere , Dr. Reich declares that it is the ambition of the Germans , " by the development of their naval strength , to carry their sphere of influence over the whole globe " ; nay , that " Germany's almost only ...
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... called upon me for the defence of the terri- torial unity , the dignity , the glory , and the freedom of the fatherland , it knew well that I was not the last Pole , and that with my death on the field of battle , or elsewhere , Poland ...
... called upon me for the defence of the terri- torial unity , the dignity , the glory , and the freedom of the fatherland , it knew well that I was not the last Pole , and that with my death on the field of battle , or elsewhere , Poland ...
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... called upon to provide for the future in various forms of insurance suited to the conditions of various classes , while capital is not so called upon , at least to the same extent and with the same urgency . Surplus earings , it is to ...
... called upon to provide for the future in various forms of insurance suited to the conditions of various classes , while capital is not so called upon , at least to the same extent and with the same urgency . Surplus earings , it is to ...
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... called , meaning that which is inevitable , unavoidable . An income tax raised to one shilling in time of peace , on the narrowest basis ever known , supported by specious and spurious maxims of finance , calls urgently for ...
... called , meaning that which is inevitable , unavoidable . An income tax raised to one shilling in time of peace , on the narrowest basis ever known , supported by specious and spurious maxims of finance , calls urgently for ...
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Page 342 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 395 - ... merely physical efficiency" means. A family living upon the scale allowed for in this estimate must never spend a penny on railway fare or omnibus. They must never go into the country unless they walk. They must never purchase a halfpenny newspaper or spend a penny to buy a ticket for a popular concert. They must write no letters to absent children, for they cannot afford to pay the postage. They must never contribute anything to their church or chapel, or give any help to a neighbour which costs...
Page 63 - And then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries, this book has been woven into the .life of all that is best and noblest in English history...
Page 64 - The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed; down to modern times, no State has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus; nowhere is the fundamental truth that the welfare of the State, in the long run, depends on the uprightness of the citizen so strongly laid down.
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Page 63 - English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world. By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized...
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Page 479 - RUST. Idler, why lie down to die * Better rub than rust. Hark ! the lark sings in the sky — ' Die when die thou must ! Day is waking, leaves are shaking, Better rub than rust.' In the grave there's sleep enough — ' Better rub than rust : Death perhaps is hunger-proof, Die when die thou must ; Men are mowing, breezes blowing, Better rub than rust.
Page 505 - Therefore when I consider and weigh in my mind all these commonwealths, which nowadays anywhere do flourish, so God help me, I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the commonwealth.