The Review of Reviews, Volume 11Albert Shaw Review of Reviews, 1895 |
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Page 39
... reason he has abstained from taking the chairman- ship of any County Council committee , and has kept himself clear from all official entanglements . Mr. Burns ' public work has not by any means been confined to his work on the County ...
... reason he has abstained from taking the chairman- ship of any County Council committee , and has kept himself clear from all official entanglements . Mr. Burns ' public work has not by any means been confined to his work on the County ...
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... reason and authority seems to lie with those who , like ex - Speaker Reed , himself a hearty party man , have advocated the change . The subject of compulsory voting is commented upon , with comparisons of the actual percentage of votes ...
... reason and authority seems to lie with those who , like ex - Speaker Reed , himself a hearty party man , have advocated the change . The subject of compulsory voting is commented upon , with comparisons of the actual percentage of votes ...
Page 70
... reason is simple . These nations have ceased to spread and colonize . They are prac- tically stationary . But English is the language of a conquering , colonizing race , which in the last three centuries has subdued and possessed ...
... reason is simple . These nations have ceased to spread and colonize . They are prac- tically stationary . But English is the language of a conquering , colonizing race , which in the last three centuries has subdued and possessed ...
Page 72
... reason convinces him that good banking is not the purpose of the organization . " It is a recognized duty of the government to supply its citizens with money which possesses debt- paying power , which when tendered by a debtor to a ...
... reason convinces him that good banking is not the purpose of the organization . " It is a recognized duty of the government to supply its citizens with money which possesses debt- paying power , which when tendered by a debtor to a ...
Page 77
... reason for this state of feeling he finds in the " unan- imous hatred of the people of California toward the Southern Pacific Company . " 66 According to common report , the Southern Pacific runs political conventions , influences ...
... reason for this state of feeling he finds in the " unan- imous hatred of the people of California toward the Southern Pacific Company . " 66 According to common report , the Southern Pacific runs political conventions , influences ...
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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.