The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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Page 15
... give them due credit for their suggestions ; but that he wore him- self out by attending in person to business which ought to have been delegated , simply because he had not learnt how to work by proxy . As to M. Clemenceau , there is ...
... give them due credit for their suggestions ; but that he wore him- self out by attending in person to business which ought to have been delegated , simply because he had not learnt how to work by proxy . As to M. Clemenceau , there is ...
Page 17
... give a damn for logic . I am going to include pensions . ' In conceding the Brenner frontier to Italy Mr Wilson had a better case ; it seemed to be a choice between doing an injustice to a relatively small body of Austrian - Germans in ...
... give a damn for logic . I am going to include pensions . ' In conceding the Brenner frontier to Italy Mr Wilson had a better case ; it seemed to be a choice between doing an injustice to a relatively small body of Austrian - Germans in ...
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... give them , in theory at least , the ownership of West Hungary . But he is certain that , on the whole , the scales were weighted against the Austrians , who , he remarks , were in this respect treated like the Germans before them and ...
... give them , in theory at least , the ownership of West Hungary . But he is certain that , on the whole , the scales were weighted against the Austrians , who , he remarks , were in this respect treated like the Germans before them and ...
Page 20
... gives it , is not pleasant reading ; and most readers will sympathise with his criticism of the French claim to Cilicia and the Greek claim to Smyrna . He is , how- ever , disposed to admit that France has an equitable interest in Syria ...
... gives it , is not pleasant reading ; and most readers will sympathise with his criticism of the French claim to Cilicia and the Greek claim to Smyrna . He is , how- ever , disposed to admit that France has an equitable interest in Syria ...
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... give their votes the minimum of weight . Probably it will not be difficult to prevent the making of laws which violate the Minorities Treaties ; it will be much more difficult to put a stop to administrative oppression and abuses of ...
... give their votes the minimum of weight . Probably it will not be difficult to prevent the making of laws which violate the Minorities Treaties ; it will be much more difficult to put a stop to administrative oppression and abuses of ...
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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.