The Westminster Review, Հատոր 157Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1902 |
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A great reaction will take place . The people will turn round upon their deceivers . They will curse those they have blessed . They will bless those they have cursed . For such is the nature of the British people . The one unpardonable ...
A great reaction will take place . The people will turn round upon their deceivers . They will curse those they have blessed . They will bless those they have cursed . For such is the nature of the British people . The one unpardonable ...
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... turn are borrowers from the banks , which again , as Walter Bagehot tells us , in the tenth edition of his Lombard Street , have , apart from a little till money , but a shadowy claim on the gold in the Banking Depart- ment of the Bank ...
... turn are borrowers from the banks , which again , as Walter Bagehot tells us , in the tenth edition of his Lombard Street , have , apart from a little till money , but a shadowy claim on the gold in the Banking Depart- ment of the Bank ...
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... turn to Burdett 1892-3 when various schemes were propounded for paying off a debt , which then stood at the considerable sum of £ 17,000,000 at an average of 3 per cent . The annual instalment payment system was favourably regarded out ...
... turn to Burdett 1892-3 when various schemes were propounded for paying off a debt , which then stood at the considerable sum of £ 17,000,000 at an average of 3 per cent . The annual instalment payment system was favourably regarded out ...
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... turn to the debt of the Government to the Bank of England , which " American Notes " ( Cassell & Co. ) stigmatise as slim in origin . A debt of £ 14,000,000 arose out of Pitt's " poker chips , " which that grossly misunderstood and ...
... turn to the debt of the Government to the Bank of England , which " American Notes " ( Cassell & Co. ) stigmatise as slim in origin . A debt of £ 14,000,000 arose out of Pitt's " poker chips , " which that grossly misunderstood and ...
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... the businesslike courses before the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Turn , finally , to the Corporations which have laid upon posterity impossible payments . How are they to be delivered ( 1902 . 4I National and Local Borrowing .
... the businesslike courses before the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Turn , finally , to the Corporations which have laid upon posterity impossible payments . How are they to be delivered ( 1902 . 4I National and Local Borrowing .
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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...