The Quarterly Review, Volume 238John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... memory of the prime with distress and humiliation . But , before we go further into facts , it is high time to speak of the book . In this biography we have a quite admirable study of a life of high interest and importance EDMOND WARRE 3.
... memory of the prime with distress and humiliation . But , before we go further into facts , it is high time to speak of the book . In this biography we have a quite admirable study of a life of high interest and importance EDMOND WARRE 3.
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admirable study of a life of high interest and importance , It is carried out with untiring industry and meticulous care , adorned nevertheless by humour , style , scholarship , and sympathy such as are rarely met with in combina- tion ...
admirable study of a life of high interest and importance , It is carried out with untiring industry and meticulous care , adorned nevertheless by humour , style , scholarship , and sympathy such as are rarely met with in combina- tion ...
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... important than considerations of high policy and the idiosyncrasies of the principal negotiators . This criticism is unfair . Experts were in fact responsible for most of the pro- visions of all the treaties , even where the subjects in ...
... important than considerations of high policy and the idiosyncrasies of the principal negotiators . This criticism is unfair . Experts were in fact responsible for most of the pro- visions of all the treaties , even where the subjects in ...
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... important decisions , as , for instance , Reparation , Compulsory Military Service , and Poland , it is well known that the solutions adopted were directly due to the influence of one or other of these commanding personalities ' ( IV ...
... important decisions , as , for instance , Reparation , Compulsory Military Service , and Poland , it is well known that the solutions adopted were directly due to the influence of one or other of these commanding personalities ' ( IV ...
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... important is the general attitude of the American writers towards the Four as a collective body . One delegate , who was specially connected with the problem of the partitioning of Austria - Hungary , goes out of his way to state that ...
... important is the general attitude of the American writers towards the Four as a collective body . One delegate , who was specially connected with the problem of the partitioning of Austria - Hungary , goes out of his way to state that ...
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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.