The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... parliamentary franchise ; but they were excluded from the electoral rolls on illegal pretexts , or they were forcibly prevented from registering their votes , or the constituencies were so mapped out so as give their votes the minimum ...
... parliamentary franchise ; but they were excluded from the electoral rolls on illegal pretexts , or they were forcibly prevented from registering their votes , or the constituencies were so mapped out so as give their votes the minimum ...
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... Parliament - ministries , museums , churches , a fine opera- house displaying the picturesque Georgian coat of arms , clubs , private palaces , handsome shops , compose the street ; while to watch the people who frequent it is an ...
... Parliament - ministries , museums , churches , a fine opera- house displaying the picturesque Georgian coat of arms , clubs , private palaces , handsome shops , compose the street ; while to watch the people who frequent it is an ...
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... Parliament House and observe this very remarkable throng as it passes backwards and forwards . First the Georgians , lean , lithe , and handsome , in their Cherkesski of grey or brown or claret , prince distinguish- able from peasant ...
... Parliament House and observe this very remarkable throng as it passes backwards and forwards . First the Georgians , lean , lithe , and handsome , in their Cherkesski of grey or brown or claret , prince distinguish- able from peasant ...
Page 142
... parliamentary institutions will largely depend upon the results of the next general elections eighteen months hence , which the Extremists will almost certainly not again boycott , but do their best or their worst to capture . Equally ...
... parliamentary institutions will largely depend upon the results of the next general elections eighteen months hence , which the Extremists will almost certainly not again boycott , but do their best or their worst to capture . Equally ...
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... Parliamentary institutions in India even if they carry us further and faster than we had originally contemplated . Indians who sincerely desire to maintain the British connexion do not regard their new constitu- tion as an experiment ...
... Parliamentary institutions in India even if they carry us further and faster than we had originally contemplated . Indians who sincerely desire to maintain the British connexion do not regard their new constitu- tion as an experiment ...
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Page 58 - The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David ; he will not turn from it ; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
Page 110 - China; b. any such monopoly or preference as would deprive the nationals of any other Power of the right of undertaking any legitimate trade or industry in China, or of participating with the Chinese Government, or with any local authority, in any category of public enterprise, or which by reason of its scope, duration or geographical extent is calculated to frustrate the practical application of the principle of equal opportunity.
Page 108 - To respect the sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China; 2. To provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and stable government; 3.
Page 238 - promote to the utmost the material and moral well-being and social progress of the inhabitants of the territory.
Page 227 - ... writhing in the skies a mysterious writing till after a myriad metamorphoses of symbol, it blazes, Alpha, a ruby and triangled sign upon the forehead of Taurus.
Page 109 - To use their influence for the purpose of effectually establishing and maintaining the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations throughout the territory of China ; and '4.
Page 110 - The Powers represented in this Conference, considering it desirable that there should hereafter be full publicity with respect to all matters affecting the political and other international obligations of China and of the several Powers in relation to China, are agreed as follows : I.
Page 229 - Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart. Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.
Page 231 - Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.
Page 231 - Five fathoms out there. Full fathom five thy father lies. At one he said. Found drowned. High water at Dublin bar. Driving before it a loose drift of rubble, fanshoals of fishes, silly shells. A corpse rising salt white from the undertow, bobbing landward, a pace a pace a porpoise.