World's Work, Volume 1Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts W. Heinemann, 1903 |
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... never to grant any special privilege to Great Britain in the British sphere of the Yang - tsze Valley , would seem to show she may be seeking in China . We have called this almost unfriendly- " unfriendly " being a very serious word in ...
... never to grant any special privilege to Great Britain in the British sphere of the Yang - tsze Valley , would seem to show she may be seeking in China . We have called this almost unfriendly- " unfriendly " being a very serious word in ...
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... never be eclipsed , and is not likely to be approached . No other amateur , and probably no other professional , will ever play twenty times for England and be one of the best men on the field in every game . Amateur football , as he ...
... never be eclipsed , and is not likely to be approached . No other amateur , and probably no other professional , will ever play twenty times for England and be one of the best men on the field in every game . Amateur football , as he ...
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... never likely to act as a unit . Their influence in local elections is not yet great , as they do not all live within the town in which they work . Should they become extravagant in their demands , or otherwise try to exploit the ...
... never likely to act as a unit . Their influence in local elections is not yet great , as they do not all live within the town in which they work . Should they become extravagant in their demands , or otherwise try to exploit the ...
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... never puts up his hand . The master noticed him , patted his head , and rallied him on his lack of energy . " Well , boys , John the Baptist was the forerunner of Jesus Christ . Now who was Jesus Christ ? " Every hand was up - but one ...
... never puts up his hand . The master noticed him , patted his head , and rallied him on his lack of energy . " Well , boys , John the Baptist was the forerunner of Jesus Christ . Now who was Jesus Christ ? " Every hand was up - but one ...
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... NEVER SO STRONG , BUT OUR INTERESTS WERE NEVER SO SLIGHT - OUR PRESENCE THERE RAISES FALSE HOPES - DANGERS WHICH WAR WOULD BRING - THE " BALANCE OF POWER " VERSUS AN IMPERIAL OUTLOOK - GIBRALTAR , MALTA , CYPRUS AND EGYPT- THE TRUE ...
... NEVER SO STRONG , BUT OUR INTERESTS WERE NEVER SO SLIGHT - OUR PRESENCE THERE RAISES FALSE HOPES - DANGERS WHICH WAR WOULD BRING - THE " BALANCE OF POWER " VERSUS AN IMPERIAL OUTLOOK - GIBRALTAR , MALTA , CYPRUS AND EGYPT- THE TRUE ...
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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...