The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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Page 67
... administration , governed by a Brigadier- General and his staff , and rejoicing in postage stamps of its own . On July 7 , 1920 , in accordance with a decision of the San Remo Conference , town and province were transferred to Georgia ...
... administration , governed by a Brigadier- General and his staff , and rejoicing in postage stamps of its own . On July 7 , 1920 , in accordance with a decision of the San Remo Conference , town and province were transferred to Georgia ...
Page 72
... administration , agricultural educa- tion is full of the highest promise . The Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Agriculture is charged with Education , Research , and Training , of which the last may be ignored , because ...
... administration , agricultural educa- tion is full of the highest promise . The Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Agriculture is charged with Education , Research , and Training , of which the last may be ignored , because ...
Page 83
... administration has been neglected . In theory every tenant is responsible for the vermin on his premises and must destroy them under penalty ; in practice penalties are seldom or never in- voked or enforced . There is a small Government ...
... administration has been neglected . In theory every tenant is responsible for the vermin on his premises and must destroy them under penalty ; in practice penalties are seldom or never in- voked or enforced . There is a small Government ...
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... Administration was the withdrawal of the American Banks from the Consortium at the very moment when the Reorganisation Loan of that year was being concluded . The reasons given were that the conditions of the Loan seemed to touch the ...
... Administration was the withdrawal of the American Banks from the Consortium at the very moment when the Reorganisation Loan of that year was being concluded . The reasons given were that the conditions of the Loan seemed to touch the ...
Page 109
... the Central Government revenues which should have been retained to meet the cost of provincial administration . The result has been Vol . 238.-No. 472 . H a counter - movement on the part of the provinces THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE 109.
... the Central Government revenues which should have been retained to meet the cost of provincial administration . The result has been Vol . 238.-No. 472 . H a counter - movement on the part of the provinces THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE 109.
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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.