The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 191A. Constable, 1900 |
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... representing the whole body of employers and employed who should act as a court of appeal , or of reference , from the judgements of local conciliation boards . We are well aware that the difficulties in the way of the constitution of ...
... representing the whole body of employers and employed who should act as a court of appeal , or of reference , from the judgements of local conciliation boards . We are well aware that the difficulties in the way of the constitution of ...
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... represent but a fainter manifestation of that thirst and passion for the unattainable in knowledge which , on this little sphere of earth where physical energies and practical sense domi- nate the events of daily life , has ...
... represent but a fainter manifestation of that thirst and passion for the unattainable in knowledge which , on this little sphere of earth where physical energies and practical sense domi- nate the events of daily life , has ...
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... represents faithfully , in the most minute detail , a feature of intellectual life and thought which may well escape notice in annals of wider import . Further , the picture is drawn by the man who was at once the victim and the ...
... represents faithfully , in the most minute detail , a feature of intellectual life and thought which may well escape notice in annals of wider import . Further , the picture is drawn by the man who was at once the victim and the ...
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... represents , ' as far as England is concerned , the meeting - point of the ' mediæval and the modern . ' So considered it is an inter- esting and , indeed , important monograph on a period which has hitherto been much neglected , if not ...
... represents , ' as far as England is concerned , the meeting - point of the ' mediæval and the modern . ' So considered it is an inter- esting and , indeed , important monograph on a period which has hitherto been much neglected , if not ...
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... represent expiation for a sacrilege that the Gauls wrecked the monuments and the expiation followed . This is a guess , for which thus much may be urged , that it falls in with certain little proba- bilities in the dating of certain ...
... represent expiation for a sacrilege that the Gauls wrecked the monuments and the expiation followed . This is a guess , for which thus much may be urged , that it falls in with certain little proba- bilities in the dating of certain ...
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Page 178 - An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, "I'd better call agin," Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' — wal, he up an
Page 178 - An* yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Page 511 - BROTHER, thou art gone before us, and thy saintly soul is flown Where tears are wiped from every eye, and sorrow is unknown ; From the burden of the flesh, and from care and fear released, Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
Page 178 - An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back f'om Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.
Page 287 - Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude...
Page 178 - An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Page 128 - Adverse holding or prescription during a period of fifty years shall make a good title. The arbitrators may deem exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual settlement thereof, sufficient to constitute adverse holding or to make title by prescription.
Page 167 - Tippin' with fire the bolt of men Thet rived the Rebel line asunder ? " 'Tain't right to hev the young go fust, All throbbin...
Page 296 - It is understood that the subjects of His Britannic Majesty, from whatever quarter they may arrive, whether from the ocean, or from the interior of the continent, shall forever enjoy the right of navigating freely, and without any hindrance whatever, all the rivers and streams which, in their course towards the Pacific Ocean, may cross the line of demarcation upon the line of coast described in Article III of the present Convention.
Page 74 - Not easily have we three come to this, We three who now are dead. Unwillingly They loved, unwillingly I slew them. Now I kiss them on the forehead quietly.