The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Bind 243A. Constable, 1926 |
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Side 17
... living at the nerve - centre of the Empire , often priding himself on " thinking imperially , " seems rarely to be conscious that on the solution of the colour problem depends in a large measure not only the preservation of the Empire ...
... living at the nerve - centre of the Empire , often priding himself on " thinking imperially , " seems rarely to be conscious that on the solution of the colour problem depends in a large measure not only the preservation of the Empire ...
Side 28
... living and working in that region long before the establishment of British rule . Moreover Kenya is a Crown Colony , directly controlled by the Colonial Office , under the authority of the British Cabinet , so that the British ...
... living and working in that region long before the establishment of British rule . Moreover Kenya is a Crown Colony , directly controlled by the Colonial Office , under the authority of the British Cabinet , so that the British ...
Side 50
... living interest for the world , this is not because of any great qualities in him either as a man or a ruler . Fate or , as he would have preferred to say , Providence , made him the main instrument in the overthrow of Napoleon ; but in ...
... living interest for the world , this is not because of any great qualities in him either as a man or a ruler . Fate or , as he would have preferred to say , Providence , made him the main instrument in the overthrow of Napoleon ; but in ...
Side 86
... living in a state bordering on anarchy , on a soil from which they toilfully derived a bare subsistence . France appears to have concerned herself specially about the fortunes of a few French merchants who had followed the expeditionary ...
... living in a state bordering on anarchy , on a soil from which they toilfully derived a bare subsistence . France appears to have concerned herself specially about the fortunes of a few French merchants who had followed the expeditionary ...
Side 123
... living authorities on the economic history of the ancient world should , on the basis of such material , produce a volume of unusual interest and importance was only to be expected , and though his conclusions may be modified in detail ...
... living authorities on the economic history of the ancient world should , on the basis of such material , produce a volume of unusual interest and importance was only to be expected , and though his conclusions may be modified in detail ...
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Side 255 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Side 40 - To refrain from taking advantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights or privileges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly states, and from countenancing action inimical to the security of such states.
Side 148 - ... from the head: by chance lively; very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies...
Side 254 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Side 152 - ... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue.
Side 392 - By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth ; we shine in silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted.
Side 266 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Side 345 - Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Side 149 - A sly sinner, creeping along the very edges of the walks, getting behind benches : one hand in his bosom, the other held up to his chin, as if to keep it in its place : afraid of being seen, as a thief of detection. The people of fashion, if he happen to cross a walk (which he always does with precipitation) unsmiling their faces, as if they thought him in...
Side 394 - All merchants shall have safe and secure conduct, to go out of, and to come into England, and to stay there and to pass as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and allowed customs...