The Review of Reviews, Volume 11Albert Shaw Review of Reviews, 1895 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 77
Page 5
... important municipal inquiries in matters pertaining to the public health have been directed toward the question how to improve the housing of the people . Statistical demonstrations DR . CYRUS EDSON , OF NEW YORK . have aroused the ...
... important municipal inquiries in matters pertaining to the public health have been directed toward the question how to improve the housing of the people . Statistical demonstrations DR . CYRUS EDSON , OF NEW YORK . have aroused the ...
Page 7
... important in the highest sense to break up the criminal conspiracy which has ruled and robbed New York , it is also well that there should be brought be- fore the minds of the people the need of various posi- tive improvements in the ...
... important in the highest sense to break up the criminal conspiracy which has ruled and robbed New York , it is also well that there should be brought be- fore the minds of the people the need of various posi- tive improvements in the ...
Page 8
... important phases of municipal life , and is profitable neither to the temperance party nor to the saloon party . Massachusetts ought to find a better way to deal with the question . The friends of deep water communication The Deep ...
... important phases of municipal life , and is profitable neither to the temperance party nor to the saloon party . Massachusetts ought to find a better way to deal with the question . The friends of deep water communication The Deep ...
Page 9
... important reasons Versus American why action by our government re- Policies . specting the canal should be prompt and unambiguous . We in this country had supposed that the Bluefields difficulty was entirely disposed of , but Great ...
... important reasons Versus American why action by our government re- Policies . specting the canal should be prompt and unambiguous . We in this country had supposed that the Bluefields difficulty was entirely disposed of , but Great ...
Page 11
... important address that deserves to rank with the annual reviews which his predecessor , the lamented George William Curtis , was wont to present on sim- ilar occasions . The doings of the present adminis- tration have been most ...
... important address that deserves to rank with the annual reviews which his predecessor , the lamented George William Curtis , was wont to present on sim- ilar occasions . The doings of the present adminis- tration have been most ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Anton Rubinstein Armenian banks bill Boston British Catholic cents century Charles Chicago China Christian Church civil committee Congress Council Crispi currency December diphtheria Education election England English Europe fact favor February France French Froude G. P. Putnam's Sons George German give gold Greece Greek Henry House interest January Japan John labor land legislation legislature literature London London County Council Lord Randolph Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury Magazine Manitoba March ment Minister modern moral municipal nature Nicaragua Canal Octavo organization paper party political portraits practical present President Prof Professor question railroad railway reform religious Review Robert Robert Louis Stevenson Russia says Senate social Society South Stevenson story tion United volume vote William women writing York
Popular passages
Page 472 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Page 54 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.
Page 173 - In and for each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions: 1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union...
Page 53 - In return His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the Government and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in these territories.
Page 434 - We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed...
Page 53 - Russia to take possession of any further territories of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia, as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms.
Page 345 - Work thou for pleasure; paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve. Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.
Page 372 - Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another : such as the excise or customs.
Page 43 - By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another,' laid aside all strife, and all former enmity.
Page 109 - Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general officers who did not exercise a separate command. He commanded a corps longer than any other one, and his name was never mentioned as having committed in battle a blunder for which he was responsible.