The Westminster Review, Հատոր 157Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1902 |
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... passed away , He , in the balance weighed , To light and worthless clay ; The shroud his robe of state , His canopy the stone ; The Mede is at his gate , The Persian on his throne ! " 1 Second Report from the Select Committee on British ...
... passed away , He , in the balance weighed , To light and worthless clay ; The shroud his robe of state , His canopy the stone ; The Mede is at his gate , The Persian on his throne ! " 1 Second Report from the Select Committee on British ...
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... passed when Mr. Rhodes was Premier , a labour policy similar to that advocated by Earl Grey was actually introduced into Cape Colony . In order to divorce the native from the soil , and thus deprive him of his independence , the land ...
... passed when Mr. Rhodes was Premier , a labour policy similar to that advocated by Earl Grey was actually introduced into Cape Colony . In order to divorce the native from the soil , and thus deprive him of his independence , the land ...
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... passed into the pauper ranks , become a lunatic , or a jail - bird , mainly in either case because of the absence of the means of living . In other words , the popu- lation of to - day are , by uncertain employment , rents , rates , and ...
... passed into the pauper ranks , become a lunatic , or a jail - bird , mainly in either case because of the absence of the means of living . In other words , the popu- lation of to - day are , by uncertain employment , rents , rates , and ...
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... passing of his Bank Charter Act of 1844 , the parent of all subsequent financial scandal . On May 31 , 1833 , Lord Althorp paid off a fourth of the £ 14,000,000 , which left the present debt as it stands weekly in the Bank statement at ...
... passing of his Bank Charter Act of 1844 , the parent of all subsequent financial scandal . On May 31 , 1833 , Lord Althorp paid off a fourth of the £ 14,000,000 , which left the present debt as it stands weekly in the Bank statement at ...
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... passed or approved . This , so it seems to me , is perfectly reasonable and natural . Why should co - operative societies be so heavily taxed , and why at all ? In the United Kingdom they are tax - free . Why should it rest with the ...
... passed or approved . This , so it seems to me , is perfectly reasonable and natural . Why should co - operative societies be so heavily taxed , and why at all ? In the United Kingdom they are tax - free . Why should it rest with the ...
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Էջ 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?
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 324 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...