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... TRUE CAUSE OF TRADE DEPRESSION . By Arthur Kitson HOUSING : A NATIONAL POLICY . By Trevelyan Thomson LIFE AND SCENES IN LONDON : - ( 1 ) BETHNAL GREEN . By Sydney K. Phelps ( 2 ) WATERLOO BRIDGE . By The Hon . Gilbert Coleridge 882 889 ...
... TRUE CAUSE OF TRADE DEPRESSION . By Arthur Kitson HOUSING : A NATIONAL POLICY . By Trevelyan Thomson LIFE AND SCENES IN LONDON : - ( 1 ) BETHNAL GREEN . By Sydney K. Phelps ( 2 ) WATERLOO BRIDGE . By The Hon . Gilbert Coleridge 882 889 ...
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... true of nations as well as of individuals that on whomsoever it shall fall , it will grind him to powder . ' The havoc of the war , the present impasse , the failure of diplomacy based on expediency , the breakdown of our economic ...
... true of nations as well as of individuals that on whomsoever it shall fall , it will grind him to powder . ' The havoc of the war , the present impasse , the failure of diplomacy based on expediency , the breakdown of our economic ...
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... true . Reports from the provinces , especially from the north of England , showed that the electorate was weighing the issue seriously in the scales ; but the excited headlines of the Press reflected only the excited oratory of ...
... true . Reports from the provinces , especially from the north of England , showed that the electorate was weighing the issue seriously in the scales ; but the excited headlines of the Press reflected only the excited oratory of ...
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... true verdicts of intelligent voters and unwearying statesmen : let all this be granted , and still the course of electioneering tells a disappointing tale , and the fruits of debate are barren . 1924 15 THE NEED OF THE AGE.
... true verdicts of intelligent voters and unwearying statesmen : let all this be granted , and still the course of electioneering tells a disappointing tale , and the fruits of debate are barren . 1924 15 THE NEED OF THE AGE.
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... true . But these benefits were bought at a great price . The solidarity of the villages was shattered ; the peasants , who were an integral part of the agricultural community and had their humble stake in the land , which was as ...
... true . But these benefits were bought at a great price . The solidarity of the villages was shattered ; the peasants , who were an integral part of the agricultural community and had their humble stake in the land , which was as ...
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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.