The Twentieth Century, Volume 95Nineteenth Century and After, 1924 - English periodicals |
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... million votes on its 1922 poll and a third of its representation . As it is it has increased its poll ( as I write ) by 256,000 votes , not counting those given to independent candidates , some at least of whom are not its opponents ...
... million votes on its 1922 poll and a third of its representation . As it is it has increased its poll ( as I write ) by 256,000 votes , not counting those given to independent candidates , some at least of whom are not its opponents ...
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... millions , the amount of security possessed by the nation and available for such purposes would be reduced and the financing of industry crippled to that extent . Arguments such as this , confessing as they do , if sound , the impotence ...
... millions , the amount of security possessed by the nation and available for such purposes would be reduced and the financing of industry crippled to that extent . Arguments such as this , confessing as they do , if sound , the impotence ...
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... millions do begin to vote a great surprise will fall on two of the three parties . Vast numbers of those who did ... million of electors appointed fifty delegates to represent it at a final polling in the House of Commons , even then the ...
... millions do begin to vote a great surprise will fall on two of the three parties . Vast numbers of those who did ... million of electors appointed fifty delegates to represent it at a final polling in the House of Commons , even then the ...
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... millions of British electors have proved three times since 1918 that they do not yet wish to scrap their veteran leaders . They are willing only to toss them into office and out of office , becoming tired in three years of three Prime ...
... millions of British electors have proved three times since 1918 that they do not yet wish to scrap their veteran leaders . They are willing only to toss them into office and out of office , becoming tired in three years of three Prime ...
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... million families with allotments and cottages , ' for , ' as he remarked , ' a man will love his country better even for a pig . ' Memories in the rural districts are very tenacious , and the story of the severance of the peasant from ...
... million families with allotments and cottages , ' for , ' as he remarked , ' a man will love his country better even for a pig . ' Memories in the rural districts are very tenacious , and the story of the severance of the peasant from ...
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Page 415 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 730 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 415 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Page 701 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie!
Page 373 - Ghost. Do not forget. This visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
Page 113 - We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
Page 384 - WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.
Page 442 - A Dandy is a Clotheswearing man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well : so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Page 725 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 72 - Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one.