World's Work, Volume 1Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts W. Heinemann, 1903 |
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... cent . of the National . It is being paid back within an average period of thirty years , so that it disappears as fast a- it is created . As we are just now passing through a period of exceptional activity in local govern- ment , and ...
... cent . of the National . It is being paid back within an average period of thirty years , so that it disappears as fast a- it is created . As we are just now passing through a period of exceptional activity in local govern- ment , and ...
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... cent . on its outstanding debt . Last year , for instance , the following surpluses were given in aid of rates ... cent .; the average return by municipalities was 4.3 per cent . On the other hand , the average price per unit charged by ...
... cent . on its outstanding debt . Last year , for instance , the following surpluses were given in aid of rates ... cent .; the average return by municipalities was 4.3 per cent . On the other hand , the average price per unit charged by ...
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... cent . of the teachers engaged are fully qualified adult teachers — the others being partially or wholly unqualified young persons and juveniles ; in the " Voluntary schools only 39 per cent . of the teachers are certifi- cated adults ...
... cent . of the teachers engaged are fully qualified adult teachers — the others being partially or wholly unqualified young persons and juveniles ; in the " Voluntary schools only 39 per cent . of the teachers are certifi- cated adults ...
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... cent . , and there are enterprises in the export trade that pay 30 per cent . and more , but these dividends go exclusively to Europe . Jonathan is a great manufacturer of cotton goods , but he does not push them south of the Isthmus ...
... cent . , and there are enterprises in the export trade that pay 30 per cent . and more , but these dividends go exclusively to Europe . Jonathan is a great manufacturer of cotton goods , but he does not push them south of the Isthmus ...
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... cent . , in addition to the interest on their value for about nine months . It is , however , well worth the South American dealer's while to pay this , as the current interest in his own country would be in most cases double that ...
... cent . , in addition to the interest on their value for about nine months . It is , however , well worth the South American dealer's while to pay this , as the current interest in his own country would be in most cases double that ...
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Page 207 - I saw brown, bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea.
Page 207 - I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
Page 483 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Page 482 - OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Page 207 - A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib...
Page 209 - I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
Page 630 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page 226 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 209 - I MUST go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking...
Page 699 - Quality they be, in Fee simple, for Term of Life or Lives, or in any other manner howsoever, and also any Goods, Chattels, or Personal Estate whatsoever, as well for enabling them the better to carry into Execution, encourage and promote by just and lawful Ways and Means, such Measures as will tend to promote and extend just and lawful Commerce...